News & Updates

Minor Outages

Monday, 30th October, 2006 - 19:26

Several times today we’ve experienced less than five minute disruptions of service. This is due to high load generated by comment spammers flooding the server. There is little that can be done to protect against these attacks, other than block the IP ranges once they’re detected.

High Load

Thursday, 26th October, 2006 - 06:35

We are experiencing extremely high server load, the cause is being investigated and will be dealt with swiftly.

Reboot Issue Resolved!

Wednesday, 4th October, 2006 - 14:24

We’re now back online after that painful bit of downtime. The problem that has caused the reboot issue last month and now again today is now completely resolved and has tested to be successful. I thank you for your patience and do appologize for the delay in restoring services. We had to coordinate with both the data centre technicians and also their technical support department to resolve the problem, that took a significant portion of time.

Problem Diagnosed

Wednesday, 4th October, 2006 - 13:34

The problem with the server reboot has finally be diagnosed, we’re now working on a fix. Unfortunately there is still no ETA on restoring services, as we must resolve this problem before continuing.

Update on Reboot Issue

Wednesday, 4th October, 2006 - 12:55

The datacenter is looking into the situation; however, other than that, we’re still waiting.