Failed to connect to insatance

Successful log in to character selection.
After clicking character, loading screen comes up and after around 6-10 sec, it says Failed to connect to instance.
It has been happening for whole evening today.

There's another thread up, but just so you know, you're not the only one. I've tried Texas, Washington and Frankfurt.. Same issue with dcing

same issue here in California Server

same

same, came up all of a sudden and its here to stay. cant play the game

I have noticed that I have become realm locked, I can play on Milan, join towns and hideout, but if i want to trade, join an overseas friend hideout, or even select a different realm in the login screen (Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London) it says failed to connect to instance.

I can imagine this is some server sided issue maybe to deal with the ddos attacks from yesterday.

still not solved

same issue from europe

I tried Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Milan

Disconnect on joining any other instance than town after login

so I switched to miland server, it seems to work now.
London / Frankfurt didnt work for me

Still not fixed, Frankfurt, Paris and the US servers are not working properly. I mean, it is the very "first" time to bring up server issuses and i really cannot imagine a world with server issues in POE. (Sarkasm!)

I mean for real,... during the last weaks there has never been a moment where EU servers were working properly on endgame content! A fix to THIS would be like a ressurection. But well, nobody has ever heard about these things in relation to "Easter". ;-)