Try F5 next time.

Adding well know peers in your web.xml increase your chances to be on real main blockchain at any moment

Instructions:
1- Close your java process (if it's running)
2- Go to the following directory nxt/webapps/root/WEB-INF/
3- Open web.xml with a text editor
4- find this line:
5- into the following lane copy/paste the easyCopyString between <param-value>HERE</param-value>
6- it will looks like:
7- save
8- restart next java process

UPDATED easyCopyString:
162.243.214.68; 95.85.46.164; 162.243.216.55; 162.243.143.15; 95.85.46.249; 93.190.92.74; 37.209.120.192; 93.190.92.75; 85.25.134.59; 93.190.92.76; vps1.nxtcrypto.org;  vps2.nxtcrypto.org;  vps3.nxtcrypto.org;  vps4.nxtcrypto.org;  vps5.nxtcrypto.org; nxtwallet.com; 31.220.50.208; nxt.ddos.me; 203.174.12.25; 88.198.142.92; 66.197.138.90; 64.120.180.106; 109.230.224.65; 80.86.92.50; node1.nextcoin.it; node2.nextcoin.it; node3.nextcoin.it; node4.nextcoin.it; node5.nextcoin.it; nxt.homer.ru; 31.204.130.123; 209.222.0.194; 209.222.16.10; node1.nxtbase.com; node11.nxtbase.com; node21.nxtbase.com; node31.nxtbase.com; node41.nxtbase.com; node51.nxtbase.com; node61.nxtbase.com; node71.nxtbase.com; node81.nxtbase.com; node91.nxtbase.com; 85.214.222.82;

Vps Owners: keep updated the easycopystring adding your nodes!!!!

@dgex.com:
"DGEX is performing server migration. Trading should be online by 11:00 PM GMT. Thank you for your patience. (Flush your DNS to access the new server sooner)."

Ah, that long?

Yeah, it's simply stupid to DDoS the exchange, users can't even panic sell, they are stuck with their coins, even if they wanted to give it all up and sell, they can't

Forging = 95% supporting concept + 5% business. Smth like that for now.

Only 5 and a half hours.

Price will dance all over the place right after restart.

Later on it will be more smooth than ever, if the new server is actually better than before.

I have a gap in my knowledge so I'm gonna ask a dumb question.  Just what IS the difference between a node up in the cloud and a peer running as a desktop (or Pi) client??  

We've got all these VPNs set up all over the world now - ferment alone has set up almost 100 - and these are "nodes".  They are all running the NXT 0.4.7e Java server software.  They are forging blocks.  Yet if I look at the "peer" list on my desktop client (where I have actually generated 9 blocks myself so far the past couple of days) I only see 52 "online peers".  If the "nodes" are generating "blocks" too, why aren't they considered "peers" as well and show up in the online "peer" list?  

I note one of the most prolific block generators is 4747512364439223888, a 50,000,000+ NXT account that has generated 3304 blocks so far, earning 56,290 NXT in fees.  Yet this chap  doesn't show up at all in the "online peer" list, which for me only lists two multi-million NXT accounts out of 54 as forging blocks : 78:46:63:221 at 6.6 million NXT and vps07.nxtcrypto.org with 2.1 million.   Somebody looking at just his desktop client with his minimum 10 NXT in it hoping to forge a block not only is at the back of the pack statistically speaking, he can't even see the front of the pack.

Am I missing something here?  Any elaboration somebody feels like sharing would be appreciated, thanks.

Correct, every computer running NRS will show up eventually as long as they aren't behind a NAT. The reason for all the nodes we setup is to ensure there are a steady supply of nodes that are full open and accessible to everyone (i.e. not behind a NAT/firewall, running 24x7)

no, that means, that node chose to only take these nodes as active peers. The number of active peers is limited and the peers are chosen randomly if i am not mistaken.

So you will be an active peer somewhere