Following on from this mornings outage can I suggest a similar system to that implemented by my ISP that maintain this page to inform users of any problems. http://status.adsl24.co.uk/
It would, I presume be a simple matter to redirect the eBid URL to point to a page such as this whilst problems are sorted.
This would create a more professional impression to eBid users and potential users than the current default page that appears whenever there is a problem.