This afternoon (mt) Media Temple engineers successfully mitigated a fairly sophisticated network attack aimed at several of our services. This distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack appears to have originated from China and other sources along the western Pacific rim.

We have upgraded our load balancing system and made various other network configuration changes to help prevent disruptions like this in the future. As always, we continue to upgrade and improve our network infrastructure to deal with emerging threats. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and thank you for your patience.

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