I tried to download something yesterday from it and it gave me an error, now it is not working at all?

It's been down for almost five hours now.

Yup, down for me too. Maemo.org has a long history of not exactly being a super stable site. Scarcely a day goes by when I will be browsing and wham, hit some database puke error message. They really need to hire some better web administrators. One would hope in this day and age that a $150 billion dollar multinational company could keep the lights on...

Maby the site is hosted on a 770 running OS2005

rofl.
A: Down for a massive upgrade?
B: Down for system failure?

Remember: A server is like a good spouse. Goes down on you when you need it most.

Just for fun looked them up on netcraft. Interesting to note that the site has been in existence since 2000.

Excuse A is no excuse at all. There are plenty of ways to upgrade a site without any downtime. An full time web admin who lets this happen is either not doing his/her job, is inept or is under severe resource constraints. I stand by my statement that Maemo.org is very poorly administered.

Rocketman,

As tempting as agreeing with you is. Since the IP doesn't respond to pings etc, we might be seeing a case dead ISP (ala 365 Main, or Rackspace)

And Nokia isn't big enough to afford a few BIG-IP boxes and throw some redundant servers in different data-centers? Somehow, I keep getting the feeling that Maemo.org is running on a Dell desktop sitting under Quim Gil's desk.

It could be, that they went to the corporate web site guys originally, and the corporate guys wouldn't give them what they wanted, so they did it themselves. There are plenty of places with well trained, reliable and friendly web site staff, who are completely unwilling to setup what you actually need/want.