As of July 19, 2010, 01:14:50 - I am unable to login into HeroMages as my normal account ("Username not found") nor as a Guest account. However, I was able to 'connect'
Edit: After a long wait, I was able to log in as a Guest.
Internet speed here is fine.
Joshua,
It's possible there may have been issues with the database this morning; I will look into it. Let me know if this problem continues or if you are able to connect now.
I was eventually able to connect with my normal account.
I was told (in-game) that it was quite laggy during that time, so it wasn't just me.
We had another user that wasn't getting access to their new characters immediately as well that day. Most likely, it was a heavy traffic load on the server the database is on. This may happen from time to time until we have customer base to move to full dedicated server.