Resolved after 30 minutes, on March 17, 2025.
All services are now operating normally. The logs show a very significant distributed brute force attack against a site that was running an obsolete version of WordPress and thus was likely targeted due to this. As a result, this site has been taken offline as this does not comply with our terms. We will continue to monitor however do not anticipate any further issues.
Update timeline
- investigating Mar 17, 2025, 05:30 PM UTC
We are currently investigating an issue with connectivity to Reseller Server 7
- identified Mar 17, 2025, 05:40 PM UTC
The server had become non-responsive and so we have rebooted it. All services are coming back up and we will investigate further
- resolved Mar 17, 2025, 06:00 PM UTC
All services are now operating normally. The logs show a very significant distributed brute force attack against a site that was running an obsolete version of WordPress and thus was likely targeted due to this. As a result, this site has been taken offline as this does not comply with our terms. We will continue to monitor however do not anticipate any further issues.
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