Site downtime...

[Darkmithoron]

GL_Support wrote:

UPDATE: 11:05am 1/30/2010 The DDOS attacks to our system we're nearing 1 gigabyte per second this morning and we took more extreme measures to fight the DDOS attack and took Guild Launch offline. The DDOS attack has subsided for the most part and we have verified that systems are operating normally. We will continue to monitor the situation. This DDOS attack has subsided once and then come back so we will have to keep monitoring. We very much appreciate your understanding while we deal with this. DDOS attacks are difficult to defend against and take time to mitigate. If you want to have more information about new releases, system downtime info, beta invites and even t-shirts then follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/guildlaunch ORIGINAL INFO At about 9:20pm Guild Launch experienced a Denial of Service attack that led to very very slow page loads. Our network engineers are taking the appropriate steps to alleviate it. However, it may take some time. Bear in mind that furiously reloading pages will just make matters wore. We very much appreciate your patience while we deal with bad neighbors and build a better fence. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/guildlaunch if you would like to be able to get this sort of info first thing and at a place where we can deliver the news even if there is problem with Guild Launch. It's a great resource for all of us. Plus, we give away T-Shirts sometimes... and provide more info than just downtime info (since that's rare anyway) such as Beta invites and requests for feature input. -Stephen