FARK.com status page

Fark.com status page

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, or much more likely, Mike's twitter, Drew's twitter, Fark twitter or all Fark staff/mod/admin twitters together. On (very!) rare occasion you may be able to catch Mike on our webcam at QX's data center.

Our normal hosting provider is QX.net, a local ISP here in Lexington, KY. This outage page is hosted at DigitalOcean in case of backbone-related problems.

If you've lost the ability to connect to Fark starting on November 1, 2018, it's probably because your browser and/or OS are too old to support TLS 1.2 encryption. We no longer support TLS 1.0 and 1.1. Many other websites are doing the same, including all e-commerce sites in June 2018 (including Paypal and Stripe) because the older encryption algorithms have long been broken. This affects at least Windows XP, Android 4, Blackberry, and macOS 10.7 and earlier -- it's time to upgrade.

We will leave TLS 1.0 and 1.1 enabled for this outage page until January 1, 2019, but after that we'll probably disable it here too. We also require a browser that supports SNI (server name indication), but support for that is older than TLS 1.0, so it's less likely to be a problem.

Sat Nov 3 2018: It's time for the Daylight Savings rollback in the US again, which is that wonderful time of year where we have to once again admit that we've still not gotten hundreds of millions of records in dozens of MariaDB tables switched over to UTC. So we'll be going down for an hour tonight, and will use the time to do a lot of "optimize table" runs.
So, we'll be going down at 1:59 am EDT and coming back up 62 minutes later at 2:01 am EST.
For you US Pacific time folks, where the math is easier, that'd be 11 pm to midnight PDT.
For everyone else, it's 0600-0700 GMT, and you can do the math. :)

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