The database server madcat is currently down due to hardware problems. Our admins are working bring it back up right now, and we’ll post here when we have more information.
Update 3:27am: we’ve just brought madcat up, I apologize for prolonged outage.
The webserver blowpop has been having some networking issues and kernel panics, so I’m going to be putting it on new hardware. This should be done in less than an hour, I’ll post an update when I’ve finished.
Update (8:45PM PST): The failover is complete, and blowpop is now running on new hardware. If you [...]
The panel’s announcement list area (Mail->Announcement List) has some new changes where you can specify the redirect URL for where you want visitors to go after filling out the form. This will make it a lot nicer for configuring redirects rather than doing it within the HTML code of your website.
Don’t worry if you’re [...]
Currently we are having some trouble with the webserver ikari and one of the file servers it mounts. Our admins are working to fix the issue right now, and will post updates here when they have more information.
Update: 12am PST: We’ve completed the repairs on the file server and are going to perform a [...]
While upgrading a package, it seems we broke mysql on dedicated servers. We are working dilligently to fix this issue right now and will update this post when we have fixed the problem.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
Update: 6:10pm PST: ok, looks like we got all of the mysqls taken care of. If [...]
Wordpress has a new minor security/bugfix release out that shouldn’t affect themes or plugins.
Wordpress 2.2.2 announcement
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An admin is currently enroute to the data center to manually restart the server. Unfortunately, I cannot provide a precise ETA at this time but will post an update once more information is available.
Update: Unfortunately, it looks like there is a hardware issue. We are currently moving it over to new hardware. [...]
Around 2am PST we will be making a quick modification to one of the database tables the web panel relies on, which cause the web panel to be unavailable for a short period of time.
We expect the outage to take at most 30 minutes, but hopefully no more than 5.
We will update this post with [...]
MediaWiki has released a minor bugfix and compatibility update. You can read about what’s new and decide whether or not to upgrade for yourself:
MediaWiki 1.10.1 Changelog
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Tomorrow morning we will be upgrading the controller (head-unit) for one of our filers that has been causing problems lately. This will affect customers on the web servers monroe and sanborn.
This upgrade will take place at 7am PDT Friday, August 3, 2007. It should only take about 30 minutes to swap in the new [...]
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