Hello,

Tonight, from 1:00 AM UTC to 08:30 AM UTC, we experienced our first load problems in a specific part on our systems. The problem was spotted at 8:00 and was dealt with at 8:30.
This problem would only affect new rentals after 1:00 AM UTC, and ongoing rentals that got disconnected from their mining pools after 1:00 AM UTC.
This problem would delay the (re)connection from the rigs to the mining pool, to dozens of minutes instead of the usual 1-5 minutes switch time.
Established and stable stratum connections were not affected.
Finally, as a side effect, rigs available for renting in the main list would sometimes dissapear from the list, and then come back.
As mitigation, renters that believe to be affected by this can ask extra hours to their rig owners.

We're really sorry about that, that is our first server problems (besides a 15 minutes downtime 2 weeks ago), we failed to anticipate the increased traffic for this rubycoin launch.
Believe me, we're working fast on scaling up the service, and this very problem that happened this morning has been dealt with.

Mux

Edit:
Ok initial review on all tickets and logs tells me the impact of this problem was much smaller than expected. I have seen a few occurences (less than 5) of rigs waiting up to 10mn to connect to their pool, but that's all.