Unfortunately we had a minor outage earlier today, exactly between 14.30 and 16.00 UTC. The problem was caused probably by an unexpected DOS attack that consumed resources of our main server, but we are still investigating it. We started working on this at 14.31. Although we did cope with the issue quite quickly, our freshly-rebooted storage array forced an all-disk check (fsck) which took more than an hour. Since the reboot was not scheduled, it halted the whole service from being taken on-line, and enormously prolonged the outage.
We were positing status updates in real-time.
Sorry about any inconvenience. We know people rely on Wikidot for many of their activities (we got a lot of phone-calls too), this is why we always try to prevent such incidents and fix them as soon as possible. Thanks for your understanding!
Best regards,
The Wikidot Team
Michał Frąckowiak @ Wikidot Inc.
Visit my blog at michalf.me
