Hotmail not synching – error message: Cannot Get Mail, The connection to the server failed. This has been going on for 2 days.

Everything was fine as recently as two days ago, then Hotmail stopped synching.  I powered the iphone 4s down and restarted - same issue.  I also uninstalled and reinstalled hotmail with partial success.  The account shows emails for 1 month up to 7/30/13, but nothing after that.  I am unable to send or receive emails from my hotmail account on my iphone.  Any leads on how to fix this issue?