Coins-E has been working fine every single time i checked it the last week, maby it's something wrong with your internet connection, or some node on the internet between you and there site ?

I think you mixed up his post and the one after, i don't think Coins-E has any faucets there, at least i haven't seen any.

There's lots of other sites(Btc-E, Cryptsys, Mcxnow, Bter, Crypto-trade and Vircurex(Vircurex is probably insolvent thou after they lost(or stole) the equivalent of 2500 btc from the exchange and then starting to steal the dividend from there minority shareholders witch they have been doing for the last 3 months now, so it's best to awoid vircurex for now until they paid what they owe there shareholders), where you can trade atcoins thou, but Coins-E seems to be where you are able to trade most coins.