Last night Amazon's EC2 servers that are responsible for hosting Spiral Knights became affected by a storm in the area that shut all game servers down, forums, etc. This power outage seemed to have affected other online services which use Amazon EC2 as well, such as Netflix and Instagram.
All Spiral Knights servers should now be back online.
All players who had Elevator Passes at the time of the outage will note their time has been extended equal to the duration of the outage. We will also be having half price elevators for all players until 6pm PDT today.
We apologize for the inconvenience that this may have caused and thank you for your patience while we were down.