URL Forwarding DDoS status (worst is over we think)

A number of factors have aligned to lead us to believe the worst is behind us for the DDoS attack on URL forwarding. The good news is some upgrades that were planned for a date to be named later basically happened overnight, so we’ve massively upgraded capacity on the URL forwarding pool and installed some new web application level firewalls on the forwarder webservers themselves.

All of the URL forwards we are testing now are loading, sometimes normally, sometimes slower.
We expect forwarding performance to steadily improve as the day goes on as the stale attack traffic “drops off”.