Okay, we're still down but we're improving.
The front side server responded to a bit of 'gentle persuasion' but the DB server is experiencing massive amounts of requests.
400k or more simultaneously from the sounds of it.
A DB restart is in the works but the server, being a computer, is doing everything in order which means it's trying to clear all the requests first.
There are some more, attention grabbing, things being done so we hopefully won't have to wait too long.