Question.....
 

why is everything (servers) down? Except for a few

It might be network problems as Stefan stated in of these threads, heh.

Stefan said the NPC servers on doomday and npulse were having issues due to network stuff not the fact 90% of the playerworlds went offline. And i would imagine they know what the problem is since they are obviously paying for the servers and have access to them.

US servers have to be restarted, I think thats what he said last night on debug. They won't respond and Stefan cannot go on and restand npc server and such.

Yeah the US server is at Rackshack.net it appears all they need todo is put in a reboot request they just goto the RS site and login and put in a request i assume since they havent done so yet its probably late in france :P

Or there on holiday somewhere in the south of France soaking up the sun.
;)

lol, someone told me they are on vacation, so you may be right

No, they need to replace the memory.
And we don't really have any holiday, we are working on weekends & holdays (we = the company, not France in general :).

so, how long do you figure this problem will take to clear up?

Stefan... My friend works at EV1/Rackshack he said there is no request for new Memory/Ram they couldnt tell much more because i dont have a RS# but anyways just wondering whats up and do we have a eta... good luck mate