PyPI has an elegant Oops page or maintenance page. This one isn’t for maintenance since Python status and its Twitter have stated that primary Postgres database has run into problems.

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Python’s trademarked logo looks very nice, especially the font it uses, the angles of those curves are fascinating. Can’t believe that I hadn’t noticed that until this.

The text version:

You've reached the static mirror of https://pypi.python.org

This could mean that PyPI is down for maintenance, or is having an outage.
In any event: This serves a full mirror, current as of:
2014-03-28 02:39:01 UTC.

Check http://status.python.org or follow @PythonStatus for updates.

Once it comes back, there is a status entry linking to the report of the outage.

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So, it means no database, no PyPI, hence a clean Oopsie!