About the Europe Mirror (my server).
I DID reboot the server the other day. As an upgrade caused some problems.
(both CPU's got 100% utilization due to a crappy library)
As long as the picture below shows users on the ftp. It's up anyway.
If you can't see the picture. Well then it must be down.
I still haven't had 10 minutes without downloads (even 1 minute).
If there's a gap in that graph chances are, the server had some downtime.
Note: the time is Swedish time (+1 GMT). So adjust it to your timezone.
This picture will update every 5 minutes:
Hope it helps tracking down any problems. If the ftp was down while you were trying to download, it's my bad.