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... it is because the staff at Dreamhost is dealing with an attack on their system at present. Here is their latest update:

Distributed Denial of Service Attack causing networking issues on SEVERAL machines
Posted (September 30th, 2011 at 9:01 am PST) by mir

Our initial calculations were off. This outage is impacting more machines than we anticipated. If your machine is down at the moment, you are likely affected by this outage. Sorry that I could not provide a list of all machines.

Our admin team is working on the matter and hopes to have it resolved in the very near future. We’ll keep this post updated as information becomes available. Please note that the servers themselves are not compromised (this sort of attack utilizes exploits of outdated applications installed by users to launch an overwhelming number of data requests which bogs down the networking on the servers involved – the distributed nature of the attacks make them very difficult to fix as it’s not just a matter of blocking a single IP or IP range).

Update Sept. 30th, 9:30am PST: Our admin team is still working feverishly to resolve this issue as quickly as possible (unfortunately the nature of this sort of attack is causing it to take longer than we would like). – John

Good job you released Audrey's set early this week

The problem with Files Forever appears to be a separate issue, although I don't believe in coincidences myself. It is still ongoing, and I am sorry about that. The guys at Dreamhost will sort it as soon as they can identify exactly what is going on. At least all the files are safe. In the event of future catastrophe, I have kept copies of everything. Dreamhost has multiple backups of all the files too.

This problem still has not been fixed. I have conducted some tests and the movie files are still present on the Files Forever server, but it is as if everything on the server has been set with read only permission. Since this problem coincided with the start of a cyber attack on Dreamhost yesterday, I am fairly convinced the two are connected. The Dreamhost tech staff are looking into the matter but I have no further update from them at present. It is probably best not to purchase any files for the moment until this problem is corrected. If it is still plaguing us next week when I have Constance's stuff ready to release, I will collect payment via Files Forever but distribute passwords for file access the old fashioned way.

I'll let you know as soon as I hear more from Dreamhost. Again, sorry about this.