Foton wrote:

Warcraft has their realm status page up and running. I’ll see how this works. All the MMOGs I’ve played, rarely did the status page truly indicate if the server was playable, as in … I can log in, retrieve my character and go whack some moles. Hey, it could happen, but I had the hope nerfed out of me long ago.

Today Blizzard wrote:

The Realm Status Page at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/serverstatus/ is unfortunately showing inaccurate information at this time. All the US Realms are currently down for the scheduled weekly maintenance that will conclude at approximately 10AM PST. We apologize for the inaccurate display of information.