I was trying to look something up here at LJ this morning, but the site was down. According to status (you can read it HERE):

We were hit by another severe DDoS starting early this morning. We've managed to stop the attack, and are working on fixing and remaining bugs with the site.This seemed like a big deal when I couldn't access the info (from my own ( Read more... )

This is never a message I like to see:

LiveJournal.com is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance. We'll be back as soon as we can!

Thank you for your patience.

And I got this message at the LiveJournal Status website:

LiveJournal Status ( Read more... )

Okay...

So there's no 'official' word anywhere that I can see as to what the emergency was about... And why is that, exactly?

If you go to LiveJournal Status right now, you still get this message:
LiveJournal is unavailable as we perform some emergency maintenance. Our Operations staff is working to resolve the problem as quickly as possible.

4: ( Read more... )

Yes, shoot me.

I finally quit trying to update here when this happened to me. (Yes, right at the appointed hour, of course!) I had more there, but it's lost now... (ugh)

...can be viewed here. (But you can't directly link the actual entry, so I'll share!)

At 7:19 am GMT on Sunday, February 26th, Admin admin writes:

We will be taking the filetmignon cluster (Where Am I?) offline for a short period tonight between midnight and 1am PST (GMT - 8) for database maintenance. If you are on that cluster you will not be ( Read more... )