I did a bit of poking and am very surprised by the lack of resiliency in the KVS setup. For the techies, even the DNS was offline and wasn't resolving.

For the non-techies, that means even if there was a secondary server to auth against, it likely would have failed as the entire kvstool.com domain had no records.

I do question the provider that is being used as any halfway-decent provider tends to have multiple layers of DNS servers that live on different networks so the loss of a single site doesn't offline the entire domain.

KVS, i'd highly suggest you consider your provider and get a more resilient DNS solution. While an outage as today's can be forgiven easily on a free service, for those of us who pay, it really is unacceptable to have such a sustained outage.