"After spending multiple hours on the phone with our cloud service provider, it appears we hit a system limit for our hosted database that’s preventing new articles from being saved."

ouch.

It gets better: "We’re aiming to get the full archives available by next Friday, February 17 at the latest. We appreciate your patience and understanding in the interim." -- http://blog.instapaper.com/post/157045376396

Gotta love the cloud. Sounds likely to be Heroku for the db if I had to guess.

did somebody make the id column an int rather than a bigint? good luck running that alter table query on 2 billion rows.

I use this multiple times a day. Not convinced its going to come back up :( Maybe time to try out pocket or something...