I got an email from them a couple of days ago about peering upgrades. They are moving away from Cogent to a higher teir provider and said there could be some hiccups. Perhaps this is one of those hiccups?<p>You might check their status page [1], which shows activity this weekend.<p>[1] - <a href="http://www.digitaloceanstatus.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.digitaloceanstatus.com/</a>