I've noticed the first strange problem. The player count on the L4D2 servers is not correctly shown everywhere. Only HLstatsX seems to show the correct number of connected clients. Sourcebans, GameTracker, Left4Maps2000, HLSW don't show the correct number or even only 0. Even in Steam it seems to be wrong.
L4D seems to be correct.
Very strange. Never saw something like that before.
So check HLstatsX to see if someone is online. All other methods seem to be inaccurate.
I hope it is working now. Have to take a look and compare the various player counts (HLstatsX, SourceBans, Steam, Left4Maps2000, HLSW, GameTracker, ...)
On the forum title page the servers are all online. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] I think the old servers are still present in the GameTracker database. They will expire automatically when they stay offline.