2011 alternative api apis checkouts com customers disruption early estimated feb fixed friday gmt impact issue major notice notification paypal posted pro pst resolution service standard tbd unavailable update updates website work-around www

PayPal has posted notice of a major disruption to their service currently making checkouts unavailable for PayPal Website Payments Standard and Pro:
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https://www.x.com/community/ppx/system_status/mts_updates/blog/2011/ 02/18/notification-major-impact-to-apis-and-wwwpaypalcom--feb-18

Notification: Major impact to APIs and www.paypal.com - Feb 18

Posted by PayPal_Updates on Feb 18, 2011 12:32:48 AM
NOTIFICATION: Payments via API and www.paypal.com are unavailable for most customers.
Sent Feb 18, 12:29 AM PST by VB

Start time: Feb 18, 12:11 AM PST (Feb 18, 8:11 AM GMT)
Estimated time for resolution: TBD

At this time, there is no alternative work-around.

UPDATE: it looks like PayPal fixed this issue early Friday morning