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Hi,the last ~2 hours phpbb.com showed an error message about too many connections made to the database. We apologise for this downtime, it was caused by locked threads from another sites database hosted on the same database server as phpbb.com.Thanks,Meik.

Hi,at 14:00 UTC today (11th August 2009) we will update phpbb.com to use the latest 3.0.6 SVN code. During this time you may notice some glitches and a few minutes of downtime.If you notice grave issues while browsing phpbb.com after 18:00 UTC, please contact us or use the bug tracker to let us know.Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience,Meik.

Hi,code.phpbb.com (phpBB’s Code Forge) will be taken down in a few hours for a server move. Because we not only need to adjust DNS entries but also move mailing lists and our repositories the downtime can last for an extended period (ranging from 4 hours to 24 hours).

Dear visitors,

With this announcement we’d like to inform you that we will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during the month May.

Schedule:

May 6th, 2009 : Network Closed during non-peak hours. (completed)

May 13th, 2009 : Forums Shortly Closed for database maintenance (completed)

May 20th, 2009 : Features Temporary Disabled for optimization (forums remain open) (completed)

May 27th, 2009 : Final Touches (scheduled to complete anything we did not get around to the other weeks) (completed)

We will have one or more days to tweak our server software, our community software, our boards’ settings, to optimize our databases and improve our…

Dear visitors,

With this announcement we’d like to inform you that we will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during the month May.

Schedule:

May 6th, 2009 : Network Closed during non-peak hours. (completed)

May 13th, 2009 : Forums Shortly Closed for database maintenance (completed)

May 20th, 2009 : Features Temporary Disabled for optimization (forums remain open) (completed)

May 27th, 2009 : Final Touches (scheduled to complete anything we did not get around to the other weeks) (completed)

We will have one or more days to tweak our server software, our community software, our boards’ settings, to optimize our databases and improve our…

WordPress.com warns that the free blog hosting service will be down for maintenance starting Sunday, February 15, 2009, at 20:00 GMT (noon PST, 3PM EST) for maintenance and upgrade improvements. This should only be a few seconds to a couple minutes. This does not impact full version and self-hosted versions of WordPress.

The maintenance probably involves upgrading to WordPress 2.7.1, server improvements, and possibly the reported news of some “cool gallery features” that may add navigation links for image pages, and other small improvements. Do not expect any major changes to the interface or functionality.

They warn that unsaved work…

I don’t understand how it always seems to happen when I’m not around…

I woke up this morning to find that the mysql service on the server had crash at around 5.30 am.

Apologies for the 3+ hours of unexpected downtime.
Now time to look at the logs to see what went wrong…

Yes, our apologies. We endured some unexpected downtime before the weekend. But this was required in order to ensure a complete and working backup of all the 64 web sites on the server, and their 200 domains, and everything that comes with it.

Because..

We got some unexpected news that the planned server renewal hit a glitch. And it was a bit last minute. A lot of stressful hours later we are back online during the weekend.

We can now continue with our planned roadmap, more about this in our blog!

Thanks everybody for your support.

Floris & Staff

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Yes, our apologies. We endured some unexpected downtime before the weekend. But this was required in order to ensure a complete and working backup of all the 64 web sites on the server, and their 200 domains, and everything that comes with it.

Because..

We got some unexpected news that the planned server renewal hit a glitch. And it was a bit last minute. A lot of stressful hours later we are back online during the weekend.

We can now continue with our planned roadmap, more about this in our blog!

Thanks everybody for your support.

Floris & Staff

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Yes, our apologies. We endured some unexpected downtime before the weekend. But this was required in order to ensure a complete and working backup of all the 64 web sites on the server, and their 200 domains, and everything that comes with it.

Because..

We got some unexpected news that the planned server renewal hit a glitch. And it was a bit last minute. A lot of stressful hours later we are back online during the weekend.

We can now continue with our planned roadmap, more about this in our blog!

Thanks everybody for your support.

Floris & Staff

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Yes, our apologies. We endured some unexpected downtime before the weekend. But this was required in order to ensure a complete and working backup of all the 64 web sites on the server, and their 200 domains, and everything that comes with it.

Because..

We got some unexpected news that the planned server renewal hit a glitch. And it was a bit last minute. A lot of stressful hours later we are back online during the weekend.

We can now continue with our planned roadmap, more about this in our blog!

Thanks everybody for your support.

Floris & Staff

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Hello everyone,
On Sunday, January 25th, 2009 we will be moving vbseo.com to a new server.
During the transition, the site will be offline for an estimated 2 hour period.
The move will begin at 02:00 (GMT).
vbseo.com and our internal systems have been running on somewhat outdated hardware. As a result, server performance has been failing to meet our expectations recently.

However, we have now selected a powerful new server (Dual Processor Quad Core Xeon 5420 – 2.50GHz – Harpertown) from the helpful team at SoftLayer. We expect the new server to provide vast enough resources to not only rev…

Alert all vBSEO.com users and visitors,

We will be performing a hardware server update that will require up to 15 minutes downtime within the next hour:
7:15 – 8:15 pm EST (GMT -4)

We apologize for any inconvenience this service outage may cause.

Edit: Update has been completed and the server has been rebooted.

This is my checklist and "how to" for upgrading vBulletin as smoothly and as quickly as possible.

The goal is to have under 60 seconds downtime from the time you close your forums until you re-open them. If you’re used to closing your forums and waiting 30 minutes while all the vBulletin files upload via FTP, this guide might be what you need.

Assumptions
You are running vBulletin on a Unix/Linux server.
You have shell access to your server, and you know how to use it.
You have the vb_backup.sh shell script set up to do backups.
Sample domain: example.com, forums…

XIMinc Hosting has upgraded its server and improved networking setup.  The YaBB website should now load faster and have less networking issues.  We apologize for the downtime you may have experienced on the site tonight during this transition.With these major changes, I’d like to remind you about XIMinc’s sponsorship of the free YaBB project.  Every donation, YaBB license, advertisement on YaBB’s website, or XIMinc hosting account goes towards supporting the project via hosting expenses.www.ximinc.com