The cause was an issue with the building owner's power maintenance that was supposed to be non impacting. The building owner is investigating to avoid a repeat in the future.

SEABKVM5 (Seattle E5 VPS) also suffered an outage however of only 2 minutes. SEABKVM7 is back online as of 20:09 UTC (15 minute outage)

Neoprotect has stated that they are not going to continue their service. We are investigating alternative DDoS mitigation providers and hope to have one available soon, this will also return latency to normal levels.

Neoprotect is still offline, they use datapacket/CDN77 as a sole upstream and they disabled Neoprotect's service which resulted in the full global outage of Neoprotect's network. You can read more about the cause here: https://status.neoprotect.net

We are currently routing DDoS protected inbound traffic through Cnservers Los Angeles so there will be a latency increase for locations that are geographically close to Seattle, if this is a problem for you in the short term, please contact us and we'll discuss the options available with you.

Longer term, we will onboard another ddos mitigation provider, potentially GSL, that has a local Seattle POP, this will ensure latency is normal.