It seems to be working fine now. Maybe they had a snow-storm related outage? ikegami's reported outage only lasted about 30 minutes.

Further interesting info: Their cpanel is pretty nice and setting up SpamAssasin on your mailboxes is made very easy.

And of course, yes, you can't expect much for $1/month, but it meets my needs. I only need to have a place to put some files for public availability, and test some cgi occaisionally.