They just tweeted:
AdultWork.com @AdultWorkcom 6m
Please use http://www2.adultwork.com for now.which is nice as I can access my profile and stuff. But useless for clients as they won't know about this.
If AW's owners/server company could point AW to the backup site, it would be a useful temporary fix.
to do it robustly, all of AW would need to be mirrored on the backup site. This would not be practical for a site like AW because of the resources needed (large ongoing costs). This usually only happens for "critical sites" like banks or google or betting companies; where the sums of money involved in a loss of service are so large, that placing backup resources are justified. The revenue generated by AW is just too small, relatively speaking. The problem is one that AW's service provider should address, rather than AW.
Though I'm glad AW are doing stuff too.