Anchor Host experienced a minor incident on December 30, 2016, lasting 1h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- investigating Dec 30, 2016, 05:52 PM UTC
Starting 15 minutes ago I've been seeing some slow performance with some brief 504 errors affecting sites on 'anchorhost4' (104.130.140.77). Working with WP Engine to resolve. Will update as I have more information.
- identified Dec 30, 2016, 06:06 PM UTC
Appears to be a large amount of unwanted traffic. A block has been put into effect to help reduce load.
- resolved Dec 30, 2016, 06:53 PM UTC
The load has been back at normal levels for the last 30 minutes. Will continuing to monitor over the next few days to see if further action is needed.
- postmortem Aug 02, 2018, 04:37 PM UTC
Yesterday there were two large spikes in traffic which affected performance and reliability of 'anchorhost4' (104.130.140.77). After reviewing it would appear the server was over capacity due to a large number of uncacheable requests directed to one of the installs. To prevent this from happening again I have moved the affected install over to a new hosting provider which is better configured to handle uncached requests.