Lupinia Status

Moved to Twitter

2010-07-05T10:13:07Z

Well everyone, I've been contemplating it for a long time, and finally decided to replace this community with a Twitter feed. While the LJ community is nice to have, very few status updates require more information than a Twitter post can convey, and since I now have multi-account Twitter clients on practically every electronic device I own, a Twitter feed is a LOT easier to update than an LJ community.

This will still be used if I have a particularly verbose message to post, or if I need a non-Lupinia website to link to for a status post (ie, during forum maintenance for web forums). But, it will be updated even less than it is now. The new Twitter feed will hopefully be updated more regularly (I plan on doing so, anyway).

To receive Lupinia status updates:

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There's also an RSS feed there if Twitter isn't your thing. And, while I haven't touched the Feedburner control panel in ages, I'll see if I can set it up with email announcements.

Thanks for watching!

[Feralys] Forums Down for Upgrade

2010-04-26T00:02:15Z

At 20:30 this evening (GMT -4), the Feralys RP forums will be going down for an upgrade to SMF 2.0. This upgrade should take no more than 30-45 minutes at most.

EDIT: There were some complications involved in the upgrade. I'll keep this updated, but for now, I can't give an ETA for the forums to come back up.

[Furry Teens] Forums Down For Directory Re-Structuring

2010-04-22T08:39:50Z

[EDIT: Maintenance over.]

In an effort to improve efficiency server-wide, I'm re-doing the way our "Static Content" host is set up. Instead of being FT-specific, it will now house data for all sites hosted by Lupinia. Since making this change will cause things to look rather broken for the next few minutes, I decided to put the forums in maintenance mode while I work.

Things will be back to normal in a few minutes.

Furry Teens Forum Upgrades

2010-03-11T23:59:22Z

Starting around midnight EST (GMT -5), FT will be down for forum upgrades. This will take an unknown amount of time, but the site will be back up as soon as possible.

Domain Transfers and Moving DNS

2010-01-10T10:37:15Z

In an effort to reduce the amount of money we're spending on domains every year, we're in the process of migrating our domains to a new bulk registrar. Since our little DNS server gets rather hammered, and our new registrar has much better DNS support than others we've used, we'll be moving most of our DNS services there as well.

What does this mean for most of you? Probably nothing, especially since the DNS moves will be conducted late at night. However, there's a chance you may see a bit of a hiccup, since there's a lot of DNS changes that'll be coming through the worldwide network. So, just a heads-up, sites may be temporarily unreachable; if this occurs, it's only a temporary glitch.

As it stands, all Lupinia-owned domains will be moved to the new registrar/DNS provider in the next week or two, with the exception of domains with .eu, .uk, and .mobi TLDs. The former two can't be transferred to the new registrar without letting them drop (a risky proposition), and any .mobi addresses will stay where they are until their renewal dates, since .mobi domains are ridiculously expensive to transfer for some reason. Thankfully, there aren't many that fit those categories.

This also applies to anyone with a domain that was purchased by Lupinia on your behalf, but anyone who fits into that category has been contacted privately by now.

RESOLVED: Temporary Outage: Patch Issue

2009-05-07T03:46:23Z

While applying a security update, some of Lupinia's services were unexpectedly interrupted. The interruption is not complete, some services are still working, but websites are currently unresponsive. This outage shouldn't last much longer, and I apologize for the problem, this patch wasn't expected to affect services this way. Email (POP3/SMTP) and some administrative services are known to still be functioning. Websites and FTP are currently non-responsive.

EDIT: We're back! Sorry for that, there will be an advance announcement next time.

RESOLVED: Unplanned Shutdown

2009-04-29T01:14:38Z

UPDATE: The server is now available. It was down due to an unplanned restart. The issue has been corrected.

RESOLVED: DOS Attack, Server Not Responding

2009-01-10T12:30:24Z

UPDATE: Things seem to be stable now.

The server is currently being DOSed, and there's nothing I can do except wait it out. It'll be back up as soon as possible.

RESOLVED: Furry Teens: Temporarily Down For Upgrade

2008-11-12T20:35:30Z

UPDATE: Everything is now back to normal.

We need to perform an extensive upgrade and maintenance operation on the Furry Teens forum, so it will be down temporarily. We expect this downtime to last less than one hour.

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All systems are functioning normally.

lupinia_status @ 2008-09-25T06:32:00

2008-09-25T10:33:25Z

All services and systems are functioning normally.

[RESOLVED] Server Non-Responsive, Unknown Cause

2008-09-25T07:33:09Z

The server is currently non-responsive, and unlike the other times this has happened, other systems in our datacenter are available and working. I'm doing everything I can to resore services, as usual.

More information will be added when I have it.

UPDATE (06:30) - The server was shut down, for some reason, I can't find any reason for it. But, it's back now.

[RESOLVED] Server Downtime - Websites Only

2008-09-20T23:17:04Z

In an effort to solve our ongoing PHP issues, due to a known issue in the PHP core code, we will be bringing the server offline in ten minutes for maintenance. I apologize for the late notice, but there appears to be no traffic at the moment, so this is a good opportunity to perform this operation.

The procedure will last no more than one hour, and our websites will return as soon as possible.

This downtime affects websites and the webmail email interface only, all other services will be unaffected.

UPDATE - This has been resolved, and everything is now functioning correctly. Apologies for the inconvenience.

[RESOLVED] Apparent DOS Attack

2008-09-13T17:42:57Z

It appears we're getting DOSed again, I'm doing everything I can to restore services as fast as possible.

UPDATE (16:42): The issue has been resolved, and I've taken additional measures to protect us from future attacks. This shouldn't be a problem anymore.

Server Available Again

2008-09-06T06:24:45Z

After the residual attack on our DNS server slowed down, access to Lupinia's services was restored. Sorry for the inconvenience.

RESOLVED: Datacenter Network Issue

2008-09-06T04:23:07Z

Our datacenter appears to be having some network issues, and our server (as well as others there) is completely inaccessible at this time. I apologize for the delay, and we're doing everything we can to get things back ASAP.

UPDATE (00:52) - We have administrative access again, and I'm working on a few things before we bring the DNS server back online (which seems to be part of the problem).

UPDATE (02:25) - After the residual attack on our DNS server slowed down, access to Lupinia's services was restored. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Now Accepting New Members!

2008-06-09T04:22:40Z

After working on the Lupinia Hosting website off and on since mid-March, the site is finally 100% complete, and the new user registration form is open and working!

So, if you need website, file, or email hosting, check out the Lupinia Hosting Community!

Server Available Again

2008-05-16T21:32:24Z

The server is back online, I'm checking logs now to find out what happened. The good news is that it didn't reboot.

EDIT: It appears that the firewall service hiccupped. All is well now.

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All systems are functioning normally.

[RESOLVED] Server Down - Unknown Cause

2008-05-16T21:27:52Z

Lupinia's server went down approximately five minutes ago, and I'm still trying to figure out what's going on. More updates as I have them.

All systems are currently offline.

Web Server Issue: Resolved

2008-05-12T19:34:38Z

At some point this morning, several of Lupinia's websites that use PHP began to experience internal server errors and access violations. I apologize for the inconvenience, but this has now been corrected.

More information is available here: http://hosting.lupinia.net/support/issue_view.asp?ID=30

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All systems are now functioning normally.

All Systems Functioning Normally

2008-04-28T20:10:16Z

All systems are functioning normally.

Planned Downtime - Software Updates

2008-04-27T23:20:57Z

The server will be taken offline briefly between 00:00 and 01:00 (GMT -4) tonight for software updates. The actual downtime will last no more than 10 minutes, but we will wait until traffic is as low as possible before rebooting the system.

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All systems are functioning normally.

Lupinia.us Email Catch-All Temporarily Unavailable

2008-04-04T09:18:46Z

Due to a spammer using fake, randomly-generated lupinia.us email addresses, I've deactivated the lupinia.us catch-all account. I will re-activate it once this dies down, it shouldn't be more than a week or so.

Please note that during this time, if someone sends a message to an invalid lupinia.us email address, it will not reach a live person, and the sender will receive a deactivated account error.

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All other systems are functioning normally, as well as the other lupinia.* catch-all accounts.

All Systems Functioning Normally

2008-03-14T03:14:16Z

All systems are functioning normally.

Yahoo Email Issue

2008-02-20T09:59:35Z

Yahoo currently has us in a de-prioritization queue of some sort, where all messages sent from our server to theirs are throttled, and they tend to build up on our end. I'm working with Yahoo to resolve this, but until it's taken care of, expect delays when sending email to Yahoo recipients.

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All other systems are functioning normally.

Furry Teens Transition Completed

2008-02-17T04:30:07Z

Furry Teens has now moved to the new server, and is ready for use. Kit and I have initiated the domain re-pointing, so you should be able to access the site at some point this weekend. If you're still being redirected here, your DNS servers haven't caught up yet.

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All systems are functioning normally.