So my main was parked yesterday in Deshaan, awaiting the morning to continue adventuring. I have my mug of coffee at the ready, sit down to play, log in on my main. Bonkus, nothing, after a minute or so I'm back at the log-in screen, prompting that I can't contact the server. Try this 3-4 times, same result. I then try my nightblade alt which is parked in Stonefall, no problem, log in strait away.

So my guess is that I'm the "lucky" winner of having a character on a shard powered by a hamster in a wheel, and the hamster has died. So my main is unreachable for me.