Debian archive down because of Sandy [update: we are back online]

A category 1 hurricane named Sandy hit the east coast of the United States last night, and knocked off power to millions of people. It also flooded some datacenters, including "75 Broad street", the datacenter where our server providing the Debian archive and Jenkins services is hosted. The datacenter is flooded, backup power has ran out and the whole area is evacuated.

We have requested a bare metal restore in another facility to bring this service back as soon as possible. Watch this space for updates.