seems like white gate is not the place u want to be right now lol... poeple in whitegate cant log in and people who warped or try to zone into whitegate gotz timed out... so yea stay clear of whitegate folks lol
Most likely just the flood of people. Have to consider the many years its been since FFXI on any server seen a mass log-in. They likely adjusted the servers a while back for current possiable log ins all at once when the game and each server sorta depoped. So they likely forgot about this adjustment and have to readjust the servers again.
However if they do another perge... erm merge. They'll have learned from this mistake.