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This is the status page for Fark's behind-the-scenes geekery. If there's a major outage or problem, we'll try to post something here about it (unless we're too up to our eyeballs in trying to actually fix it)... so check here if Fark's hosed for an extended length of time. Normally this page will be blank. :-) For more minor issues, see Mike's blog.
This is hosted at a different ISP in case of backbone-related problems --
thanks to Bluegrass.net.
Mon Feb 8 21:18:40 EST 2010: We'll have a bit of scheduled database downtime tonight to try to replace the heat sink that came loose the other week -- currently the old heat sink is holding but the CPU's still running a bit hotter than it was. So I'm going to just replace it and reapply the thermal paste. Currently I'm planning on doing this at midnight ET, however there is supposedly a snowstorm on the way and if it starts to snow heavily I may do it much earlier than midnight. We hopefully won't be down more than about 15-20 minutes.
Wed Jan 27 04:27:50 EST 2010: Database server crashed and didn't responding to remote reboot / power cycling. I'm downtown trying to kick it now. Turns out the CPU fan sponteneously popped loose and the BIOS shut the system down when it overheated, so I'm trying to reseat the CPU fan now. (Obviously this is NOT an upstream provider issue! This one's all us) :) The system should be coming up by 5:03 am and I'll go get a fan with more durable clips after I get some sleep...
Mon Jan 18 15:13:28 EST 2010: Our upstream provider's having some minor BGP issues -- not at all related to what happened last Thursday though. It may cause some submitted links or images to get rejected due to DNS lookup failures. They're working on it now.
Thu Jan 14 09:35:40 EST 2010: Looks like we've got an upstream connectivity issue. Checking into it. UPDATE: Both providers are now fixing their BGP routing problems, and one provider is fixing a flapping SONET circuit... don't have a specific ETA though. UPDATE2: Looks like it came up a bit before 3 pm EST. More details later, but hilarity will ensue at a future date... let's just say it wasn't our immediate upstream provider's fault.
Sat Dec 12 17:50:00 EST 2009: Some authentication routines have been rewritten. If you're suddenly getting bad-password messages -- especially when posting comments, submitting links, or editing your profile -- please report the specifics via Farkback.
Other than that... No known issues or scheduled maintenance at this time.
