I saw that us1 was down too.  I have us2 as a backup on cgminer 3.2.1 but it didn't switch over.  I restarted and it picked us2 correctly still it's kinda annoying it didn't autoswitch.

agreed us1 server appears to still be down although the others are working. 

Congratulations to all the PPS miners at this moment. Is there any historical chart which shows DGM on EMC is eventually equal to PPS? Thank you

Thanks. But still I want to see a chart of EMC which shows since the beginning of their mining a comparison between PPS and EMC. The only charts I can find are some historical charts of shares per block with an average Luck calculated. It would be nice to see which system till now (since the beginning of EMC) has the benefit... I know this is variable, but in the long run PPS and DGM must be equal. I think its hard to calculate because the Difficulty is rising and in a bad luck month for DGM this is a real forever loss, because in a lucky period the Difficulty is much higher and the payout less.

Hmm, I don't know. I don't have an Avalon, so I couldn't say for sure.  Try using Stratum.  stratum+tcp://us2.eclipsemc.com:3333

I saw this in the bitminter thread.  I assume this could be modified to point to, and work with, EMC.

mining_proxy.exe -o mint.bitminter.com -p 3333

See this page on Slush if you need to pick up the proxy software:

http://mining.bitcoin.cz/mining-proxy-howto

Is SMS free now? I can't get mine to work. I thought it was like this for US numbers 18885555

I guess she was thinking of Blades, then...

I had 2 machines on us1 and although they appeared to be hashing correctly, EMC web site reported that they were not hashing.  Manually switching to us2 and us3 resolved the issue. 

Does us1 have a problem?