Our downtime scenario tests have been successful. The site is fully operational once again and the downtime issues that we experienced in the last 24 hours (of the time of this blog entry) should be automatically mitigated in the future.

Latest maintenance is designed to simulate downtime scenarios to watch how the system reacts with new redundancy measures. We expect a few minutes of downtime as a full array of debuggers analyze the servers.

Hi all,

We were DDOSed today which brought down the site. Admins are working on it as we speak.

We had a blip on our DNS servers today. One of the two of our DNS servers is up, but the second one is down due to hardware failure. That will be resolved by Tuesday.

Our site will continue working without problems till then.

As you may notice it, due to a recent upgrade our blog is now totally naked. We’re working on fixing that shortly, it should not take long.

EDIT: This has been fixed up now.

Our site is currently down due to network issues, we’ve started investigating into why this is so.

Edit: It looks to have been caused by a temporary network issue which has automatically resolved itself. Our site is back up and running.

We have been down for 5min already, our admins are looking into it but we’re not 100% sure why our server is down yet.

We’ve nearly finished implementing an improvement to our system to increase redundancy. Today a network outage caused our site to go offline. Because of this, we have designed a new system to reroute traffic depending on the network situation.

So far the new system has reacted effectively against this specific downtime scenario.

We seem to have some network issues at the moment and we’re already working around the clock to resolve this.

We’ve taken the server offline in an unplanned fashion to fix an urgent issue with the database. We’ll be back within 40min.

Edit: We’re back up.