Any advisable port for EU location???
Some of them (all the last few) should have actually just sent a reconnect to your cgminer, but during the problems when the pool has hung a few times much earlier, you'll have failed over to your backups.
Hopefully the current update that's running now is OK.
I've got an annoying iPad that'll wake me up if something goes wrong tonight when I'm asleep and the pool doesn't manage to restart itself
... to solve last night's problem of a lockup that wasn't detected - that's related to the code change that puts the green Aki eyes on the top left of the web page.