RESOLVED: WordPress service was heavily degraded
Wednesday, May 28th, 2014
Incident Discovery Time: 10:35am on 05/28/2014
Time of Resolution: 11:00am on 05/28/2014
Services Impacted: WordPress Websites
Description of Impact
WordPress service was degraded. It was taking a very long time for WordPress pages to load.
Incident Description and Resolution
IS&T teams have resolved the incident. The WordPress asset backend has been restarted and service has been restored.
Additional Information
The cause of this incident was determined to be a large number of repetitive requests for a document from a single IP address that was consuming an inordinate amount of system resources.
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