I made this as a new thread so the maximum amount of people can see this but this morning the Devs have let us know that they are preparing "facilities" to accommodate new servers as early as next week so we just need to try to put up with all the log in issues this week.

Cited from this letter:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...d7c59b9e695188

Hope it helps.