We have been working with our network providers to resolve the issues that had caused the short interruptions earlier today. Things have been stable for the past three hours.
As a precautionary measure during the time of instability, we moved a percentage of the VIP traffic away from the data centers experiencing issues. For those not using our DNS servers, it impacts our ability to protect your sites from exposure to outages like this. We urge you to use our DNS servers if at all possible.
If you have any questions, please contact us at vip-support@wordpress.com.
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