I was wondering why SWG was down and discovered this:

Quote Originally Posted by Freerealms Insider

Good Morning Insiders,

Don't PANIC! Don't think you're unable to connect! It's OK! Really!

Today, Sony Online Entertainment, SOE, is performing maintenance on its entire servers. So, bad news for us, no FreeRealms until at least 3 PM EDT.



The maintenance is scheduled for at least 12 hours and I think I remember it starting at 12 AM PDT.

Here's the actual announcement:

SOE databases maintenance

There will be maintenance on the Session databases across all games on Wednesday September 9, 2009. It will begin at 12AM PDT and is estimated to last until 12PM PDT. All game worlds will be unavailable for the estimated 12 hour maintenance, as well as the Station Store and all commerce avenues. This may affect the performance of the forums and any or all accounts' abilities to log in.