Wordpress/sites.unc.edu Intermitent Performance Issues

Incident Report for UNC Chapel Hill - ITS

Monitoring

Sites are now recovered and operating normally.

Earlier incident activity was caused by elevated automated traffic (bots, scrapers, and automated tools) generating excessive requests, resulting in intermittent performance degradation.

We are actively monitoring traffic and updating rules to block unwanted patterns, and working with vendors to strengthen protections. The Major Incident will remain open while we continue active monitoring and validation of stability.
Posted Jun 30, 2026 - 14:44 EDT

Investigating

The ITS Operations Center has detected an issue impacting Wordpress/sites.unc.edu. Engineers have been engaged to investigate.
Posted Jun 30, 2026 - 13:08 EDT
This incident affects: Web (Sites WordPress).