We have seen several cases of massive floods of traffic causing latency a few times tonight. The Planet is working to control it with firewalls.

traceroute to 174.132.131.132 (174.132.131.132), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 41.38.344a.static.theplanet.com (74.52.56.65) 916.325 ms 916.529 ms 916.741 ms
2 91.fe.5746.static.theplanet.com (70.87.254.145) 0.474 ms 0.460 ms 0.659 ms
3 e2.fe.5746.static.theplanet.com (70.87.254.226) 0.895 ms 0.896 ms 0.885 ms