Having problems connecting to servers, Can anyone verify this is a issue?

In the past week the login service went down, after coming back up (I and everyone else) on my server started having problems connecting to the server I run. I decided to test and try connecting to other servers that I play. I'm having the same problem connecting to other servers.

I am wondering if this is happening to everyone now or just a few?
We can login to the game but when trying to connect to servers it's d/c'ing us with failed to connect/ failed to login.

On sites that uses votifire (how ever you spell that) I and many other ppl have been getting reports that our User names are not able to be verified.
Could this be the same issue?

A lot of us are also getting crashes everyday now. It's gotten so bad that we all need to restart are computers at times to get our clients to close.

So are these things happening to other ppl?