PayPal has announced scheduled maintenance involving a brief window of downtime, starting 11pm PDT on Thu22Mar2012:
https://www.x.com/content/reminder-planned-downtime-during-mar-22-maintenance-pp-live-2555
Live Site Maintenance with Planned Downtime
REMINDER: The following activity has been scheduled for Mar 22, 11:00 PM PDT (Mar 23, 6:00 AM GMT).
Posted Mar 20, 5:06 PM PDT by MC
ORIGINAL NOTIFICATION: We will be performing a system maintenance to improve the reliability and performance of our services. Please be advised that PayPal APIs (including Express Checkout) will experience a service interruption for up to 10 minutes between Mar 22, 11:00 PM PDT (Mar 23, 6:00 AM GMT) and Mar 22, 11:10 PM PDT (Mar 23, 6:10 AM GMT).
During this time majority of PayPal API requests will not complete and will fail with error 10001 (Internal Error) or time out. Website Payments Pro Payflow Edition API requests will not complete and may fail with errors 1000 (Generic host error), 102 (Processor not available), 104 (Timeout waiting for processor response), 109 (Timeout waiting for host response).
Posted Feb 21, 9:58 PM PST by MC
Key Times to Note:
Maintenance start time: Mar 22, 11:00 PM PDT (Mar 23, 6:00 AM GMT)
- Downtime approximate start time: Mar 22, 11:00 PM PDT(Mar 23, 6:00 AM GMT)
- Downtime approximate end time: Mar 22, 11:10 PM PDT(Mar 23, 6:10 AM GMT)
Maintenance end time: Mar 23, 1:00 AM PDT (Mar 23, 8:00 AM GMT)
If you experience any issues, contact PayPal Merchant Technical Services by filing a ticket; refer to PP-LIVE-2555.
Service or Site Name:
PayPal Live Site