Update 2: August 25th 2013 12:00 BST: We have been working with one of our upstream connectivity providers and with their help thankfully the situation is now under control, and normal connectivity has been restored. We apologise for the inconvenience that this incident will have no doubt caused for many of our customers.
Update 1: August 25th 2013 11:40 BST: We are currently experiencing a large inbound DDOS attack against one of our customers, which is affecting VPS connectivity for a large number of our customers, who will be seeing severe packet loss at the moment. If you are affected please bear with us while we deal with the incident.