New database is humming along happily. While traffic levels remain high, the system is meeting demands.

We've isolated the site with the traffic spike and moved it to its own system. All sites should be returning to normal.

Traffic on the overloaded database is shunting over now. We are monitoring traffic loads.

A sudden, massive spike in traffic caused a database server to fail which caused a cascade through out the hosting infrastructure.

All sites are currently up, though some may experience slower than normal backend access while we isolate the database.