The queue has been in 5 digit numbers for a few days. And for a few weeks before that it was possible to get articles archived by archiving them when americans are sleeping (at GMT morning). Nowadays it is no longer possible and the waiting line is about 2-3 days. What on Earth is going on?
.ph is the Philippines TLD, Typhoon Noru just went through it. Not sure if archive.ph is hosted there but I recall when living there I could always expect network issues and outage when there were strong Typhoons. Maybe related?
In times like these I always like to urge people to figure out what these services are that you like using online and see if there are ways that you could roll them yourself at home for your own personal use.