Partial Outage of WordPress Hosting

Our WordPress hosting servers are showing timeouts on some pages and others are slow to respond. We are Investigating.

Update: 18:52 We have identified that a very large number of WordPress sites are being attacked from a very large number of sources. This is very hard to automatically differentiate from legitimate traffic. We are attempting to manually identify a commonality.

Update: 19:12 The attack continues but we are happy that we have mitigated the worst of it. We will continue to monitor and block traffic as required.

Update 20:09 We are continuing to block attacks and monitor the situation however we are happy that sites are up and responding.

Update 21:18 Traffic has returned to normal and all systems are nominal again.