What???

"The server provider typically puts up 'protection' when there's an incident or null-routes the server. If there was an incident on Saturday then they're likely filtering the connection to the server which is causing all the issues everyone is experiencing.

The reality of the situation is that it's (unfortunately) easy and inexpensive to attack but defending yourself from the attacks can be significantly harder and more costly."

Fp4 said that yesterday on the thread you created. (same post where I quoted him saying they were fixing it earlier)