Hi guys,
The people in charge of our server had to do some emergency updates. While this happened more than a few hours ago, there have been some consequential problems with the server connecting to databases. Unfortunately, we can't do anything about it on our end -- we can only wait for the server administrators to fix everything.
I'm so sorry for the inconvenience.
You can read more about it here:
http://forums.hostgator.com/oct-29-02-00-emergency-maintenance-t328219.html