Your servers are reachable again, and we found no data loss. The last of our seedbox and storage servers came back at 09:03 UTC on 30 September. A full check later that day found every one of them working, FTP included, and a spot check on 1 October found the same. Here is what happened between 26 and 30 September, what it meant for you, what we got wrong, and what we changed.
What happened
From the evening of 26 September our network was hit by a large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, in several waves. A DDoS floods a network with junk traffic from many machines at once. It clogs the roads to your server; it does not get into the server. The attack was big enough to disrupt our network provider's own network and some of their other customers as well.
When you were affected (UTC)
- 26 Sep 17:37 to 28 Sep 05:33: part of our network could not be reached from the internet, for about 36 hours.
- 27 Sep, about 11:30 to 15:00: the rest of our network could be reached from only part of the internet.
- 27 Sep 21:05 to 28 Sep 02:38, and from about 00:50 on 29 Sep: the rest of our network stayed up but ran slower than normal.
- 29 Sep 04:30 to 30 Sep: the whole network was unreachable. Most servers came back at 05:09 on 30 September, about 24 and a half hours later. The rest came back at 09:03, about 28 and a half hours later.
- Website and client area: hard to reach from the early hours of 29 September until 06:25, then a series of short drops, each a few minutes long, until about 02:15 on 30 September.
For both full outages, every affected customer got direct email from us while it lasted and again once service was back.
What we did
I checked reachability every minute, and regularly from many points around the internet, so we knew whether you could reach your server, not only whether it was running. We said "restored" only after each part of the network had held for a full hour. During the 29-30 September outage we paused new orders, and reopened them as each part of the network came back. I also gave the website more capacity to cope with the extra load.
Aleksi, our founder, worked directly with our network provider throughout. Their engineers worked around the clock through the attack. Thank you to them.
What we got wrong
Email went quiet for about 20 hours, from 07:53 on 29 September to 03:47 on 30 September, while the whole network was down. Discord got an evening update, but the matching email got stuck before sending, and we did not catch it until the next morning. That one is on us.
On two servers, FTP stopped during the outage and did not come back by itself when the network did. On one of them FTP was down for more than three days in total. Both are fixed.
Some outage tickets have waited too long for their follow-up reply, because our ticket handling judged a server as down only when it looked down from the inside, where everything was running fine.
What we changed
- We bought a DDoS protection service from our network provider.
- Our provider carried out hardware work on their routers during the outage.
- We now work more closely with our provider than before.
- Our ticket handling now also treats a server as down when the internet cannot reach it.
Nobody can promise a network will never be attacked again. These are the changes already made.
This closes the service advisory from 29 September. If anything still looks wrong with your service, open a support ticket in the client area.
Sorry for the long interruption, and thank you for sticking with us.
Best Regards,
Väinämöinen
Pulsed Media Support
(The old sage kept watch every night.)
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