Emergency maintenance affecting checkout and API

And we're back to 100% online. API and checkout included.

We will continue working on the more robust solution to mitigate a similar situation happening again.

The issue was related to either physical hardware failure by our supplier, or an overloaded node on the server.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Putting into maintenance mode now. ETA 25 minutes from now.

Our team has identified one of our servers which handles a critical job queue is underperforming. This job queue is required for the API which the checkout depends on is underperforming.

We're performing a hotfix which will require 15 minutes of downtime affecting the checkout. We're preparing for this downtime just now. We will update here when the checkout is officially offline.

We have already planned a permanent fix for this essential componenet to ensure stable performance for BFCM and the holidays, which will be actioned after the hotfix.

Sorry for any inconvenience. We'll be right back.