High load on the “elzar” server (resolved)

Posted September 27th, 2011 in System Status. Tags: .

The “elzar” Web hosting server experienced very high load between 9:07 and 9:14 AM Pacific time this morning (September 27, 2011), causing sites on that server to load slowly during those seven minutes. Other servers were not affected.

This was caused by a distributed denial of service (“DDOS”) attack against a site on that server. We manually blocked the attackers to resolve it, and we’re continuing to monitor it closely to make sure it doesn’t recur.

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