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We have a 45-90 second delay on our front-end firewall, we are also doing a few code deploys right now so it takes a little while to reset.

Our focus is always on ensuring that virtual servers that customers run are unaffected, but its great to get a nice traffic spike to the front-end to also see real world usage and how we should be updating things for the future.

Cool, was hoping I just caught you at an inopportune second. :)

Took a bit of a unexpected hit with the traffic. The SSD release is bringing new all time visitors to our website. We're spinning up thousands of servers as we speak. Here is a $20 coupon code from ServerBear to give us a shot - "SSDBEAR20"

I have also experienced this once whilst browsing the site just now.