So it was down for a week. Then, when it came back up, things seemed to work fine -- until I tried to reconfigure my Thunderbird POP settings, and suddenly got a warning about the security certificate pointing to a site that wasn't "ruggedinbox".
Not seeing the certificate issue mentioned here in the days since, I've begun to wonder whether it's something flying under the radar, maybe slipping past those who continued "business as usual" under their previous settings. So, in the interim, I opted to use the webmail interface.
Unfortunately, since yesterday, the website appears to be down again, at least for me.
Hi no we didn't touch anything on the configuration except usual OS updates, our mail clients are working ok (no ssl alerts)
and there is no other feedback about this (until now).
But yes the http service was down/slow because once restored the service we also restored the Tor HS onions
and it looks like the DDOS attack resumed.
At least this time we found a number of hits on the access.log file like this:
"GET /?PAY-2BTC-TO-1Efc4djSCfqobjXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-FOR-THE-PATCH HTTP/1.1" 200
but can't say if its directly related to the long going problems on TOR HS :|
So HS services stopped again and this sucks.
About your certs problem, were you using Tor ? Could it be the 'usual' bad exit node (MITM) SSL hijacking problem ?