A website on Champion is being attacked with large amounts of web traffic and email. It is not clear why anyone would attack on an otherwise ordinary real estate site. We are blocking what we can, but the attack was causing some connection trouble earlier this afternoon. It appears to be dying off. We are watching, and consulting with a security expert.

Last night’s cpanel update on Crown apparently caused SSL to freeze on Crown. The problem didn’t rigger any monitors on our end, so unfortuantely we did not know about it until tickets came in. Restarting Apache appears to have resolved the problem.

We have reports from some clients of intermittant problems connecting with the PayPal.com website. If that is stopping you from making a renewal payment, please send a message to billing@gryphynmedia.com to tell us about it. We will make other arrangements or allow more time until Paypal resolves whatever the problem might be. We will not let it threaten your renewal.

A larger-than-ususal lunchtime email surge choked cpanel on the Champion server, and it froze for about half an hour. The server itself did not go down, so websites stayed up, but email was sluggish and you would not have been able to log into webmail or cpanel. It has been restarted and things have returned to normal.

HTTP may appear to be up and down in the wee hours as we work on a problem with PHP modules.

We have updated all the server timezone database to ensure that this weekend’s Daylight Savings Time change goes smoothly. Early Sunday morning at 2 AM, it will become 3 AM. If it seems to early to be “springing forward,” it’s because Congress moved it up three weeks this year, to save energy.

Waiting for information now. Please DO NOT call - the phones are flooded. Use the helpdesk and watch this blog for news. We cannot return phone calls as fast they are coming in. The helpdesk is in a different datacenter and is UP.

Update: The servers are being rebooted and you will see them start to come up in the next few minutes. We will have more info on what happened shortly. We will be reposting to to helpdesk tickets and answering more email once everyting is back up.