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Hey everyone, Thank you again for your patience during our outage and for waiting for this follow-up! This post has the additional details we promised last week. The site consists of a caching proxy, an application host, an S3-compatible object store, and a database-as-a-service instance, all...

Hey everyone, We're back. and the site should be stable. As ever, thank you so much for your patience on this kind of thing! The site uses a MySQL Database-as-a-Service product from a well known cloud provider. Unfortunately the cloud provider totally biffed our DBaaS instance. We have...

Hello, I hope your November is going well! We have an update today -- we're moving away from the IRC channel #68kMLA on irc.oshaberi.ne.jp to the IRC channel #68kMLA on the server irc.68kmla.org. As on Oshaberi, we'll have encrypted connectivity and unencrypted connectivity, so our vintage...

My super duper apologies on this one. The site was unavailable briefly ~7 to ~740 UTC-7, due to a DNS error. It may take longer than that for some people to get it back, based on DNS caching.

The site experienced a brief certificate error for ~30-45 or so minutes today. We've got it fixed back up and everything should now be good to go!

2021-01-07 68kMLA Update Hey everybody, We recently rolled over a 20th anniversary, and we’re in it for the next 20 and beyond. What we’re announcing today will lay some of that groundwork. Our tentative goal is to accomplish one major project each calendar quarter. These will be things we do...

Hey everyone, My apologies for the errors accessing the site this morning, from as far as i know 00:01 to around 09:30 (UTC-7) this morning. The SSL certificate had expired. We do have certbot automation established, however, . That error is now resolved. Best, Cory W.

Hello fellow MLAers, We would like to announce a maintenance period on 2021-09-04 starting at 10pm in PST. During the maintenance period we will be moving the site to a new hosting arrangement with a well-known cloud computing provider. We expect the migration to take a few hours. You can...

Hello, The site was unavailable from 2021-06-30 at approximately 4:00 p.m. (UTC -7) until 2021-07-05 approximately 8:00 p.m. (UTC -7) This is due to a database crash, itself caused by errors in the old software's maintenance tasks. More details/meta thread: 2021-07-05 Site is Back & Migrated...

Hey all, Quick note - we got a note on twitter that the site was inaccessible, I pinged wthww but it came back before he was able to say anything, so, unfortunately I don't know exactly what happened. Best, Cory W.

Hello everybody, My apologies for the late notice, the site will be unavailable tomorrow morning, probably for a couple hours, the physical hosts the site is running on will be moved. Other than the physical location, this isn't a configuration change so the performance of the site should be...

My apologies for the delay posting this - the site was slow and/or unavailable for a few hours earlier this morning. The upstream ISP to our hosting location had an error causing a severe network bottleneck.

Good morning, (It's not 2 p.m., it's definitely morning.) I'm splitting this out because I didn't want to detract from the original thread, but I feel like it's important to address this from @Dog Cow. I wanted to briefly discuss the relationship between vtools and the greater 68kMLA. wthww...

Hey, random query: Does anybody know of a random sequence generator that's mildly configurable and ideally drop-dead simple? I'd like it to run on OS 9, but if it were carbon and also ran on X, I wouldn't mind that much. I'd rather not use a spreadsheet to do this, just for overhead reasons...

Good morning, Brief site outage this morning. It appears to have recovered on its own, somewhere between 6 and 7 a.m. (GMT -7). If I find out more I'll put it here. Best, Cory W.

Hey everyone, As always, my apologies. Site went down some time this morning and is now back up. No information yet on what has caused this but I'll update this if anything particularly juicy comes up. Best,

Hello, Thank you again for your patience. I understand this kind of thing is frustrating, but, we've gotten posting restored. Our tech admin was able to sign in and discovered that we had reached the maxinum number of posts Invision and the database are configured to handle. We have updated...

Hello, as is tradition: Brief site outage today due to an electrical problem. Power has been restored and the UPSes are now recharging. Best, Cory W  

Hello everybody: As always, thank you again very much for your patience. The site appears not to have come back after some planned maintenance the other day, or it went down unexpectedly shortly thereafter, and then a series of work emergencies caused it a bit more delay than normal in coming...

Hello everybody, my apologies for the late notice on this, but the site will be down from roughly 12am to 1am tonight 2020-09-11. That's in roughly 4 hours. We're adding some machines to the resource pool that runs the site.