eCatholic experienced a critical incident on February 16, 2018, lasting 2d 20h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- investigating Feb 16, 2018, 06:08 PM UTC
A large number of our websites are currently not loading. We are actively investigating the issue and will post an update as soon as we have more information. Thanks for your prayers and patience.
- identified Feb 16, 2018, 09:00 PM UTC
The DDoS attack that subsided for a couple hours earlier today returned around 12:00pm CST. Since then, we have been working with Rackspace to combat the attack and we have about 50% of sites back up. We will continue to address the issue and post more updates as they become available. Thanks again for your patience and prayers as we work through this incident. You can learn more about DDoS attacks here: http://ecatholic.us/ddos
- monitoring Feb 17, 2018, 01:05 AM UTC
Over the past 24 hours, we've been dealing with a DDoS attack that has caused all of the websites that we host to go down for different lengths of time. We've been working with Rackspace around the clock to combat the attack and most of our sites are currently up. You can learn more about DDoS attacks here: http://ecatholic.us/ddos If your website is still down, please check your email for instructions on how to get your website up-and-running again. You can also contact [email protected] if you did not receive an email. Thanks for your continued prayers and patience.
- resolved Feb 19, 2018, 02:39 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.