ultimo (DayZ)

Running 94444, all the servers are stuck on "Waiting for character to create" Did no one reboot theyre servers after 4pm gmt ?

Can somebody plz explain me a couple of things? 1 Server which contains the progress etc was DDOSed by greenarrow right? 2 Because of the instability because of that, DayZ staff decided to make the best out of it and is using the downtime to update the server side code (?) and to patch client side (?) right? 3 everything should work fine again in 1 hour? 4 Maybe everyone lost their stuff and progression and saves? (Its just a game/free mod ppl!) And i just wanna say to the staff, thx for taking so much effort in the free mod! I bought arma 2 CA for your work, and i dont complain about the game which is down, because it has nothing to do with what i bought / you guys. Thx for this awesoem mod and keep on the good work!