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More updates about the DDoS
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K,
We're still dealing with the DDoS. Turns out we upset our attackers and they started hitting us 10x harder :)
Even though we're back up, a lot of stuff probably won't work, you might get strange error messages, etc, etc.
I will update you as soon as things have quieted down, and we get more parts of the ( Read more... ) -
Hold on, the DDoS will be Exterminated!
Hey,
Since yesterday afternoon, we've been hit with a DDoS attack. We're doing everything we can to keep everything running at 100%. Unfortunately some jobs/notifications/pages might behave unexpectedly or fail to load until we can fully stop the attack.
We want to thank you ahead of time for your patience. If something doesn't work, just try waiting ( Read more... ) -
Maintenance Window on July 28, 2010
I just want to put a quick note out that we will be undergoing maintenance tomorrow, July 28 at 9:00 PM UTC. The work involves changing database roles. We do not expect any interruption to the website short of a few minor glitches as servers are moved. If you notice errors around this time, please be patient and try refreshing the page. A note will ( Read more... ) -
Purging Suspended Accounts
Hello LiveJournal!
I'm going to take a few moments to explain the plan behind LiveJournal's recent announcement to purge suspended accounts. I know the initial announcement was a couple of months ago, but I assure you we are still moving forward with this. In fact, we halted all account purging while we modified our worker scripts to handle ( Read more... ) -
Minor Outage on Friday Night
Hello Everyone,
I just want to give everyone a heads up that we will be taking a minor outage Friday April 30th at 9PM PDT. This outage should last for roughly 30 minutes to 1 hour. We need to take this temporary downtime to implement some changes in our backend machines.
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Website performance - Apr. 12 (PDT) update
Hello everyone, here is the update from the weekend. I will cover the 2 points from the previous lj_maintenance posts so we can close the loop on them.
Speed up the way our user information is pulled out of our databases.There were 2 more emergency patches released this weekend that have been helping the situation. We will continue to look at ( Read more... ) -
Website Performance - UPDATE
Hello everyone, I've got the latest update on what we're doing to help LJ's performance.
Speed up the way our user information is pulled out of the database.
The code release we were originally planning for yesterday has been pushed back to at least Monday. dnewhall asked for, and received the SQL patches separate from the main release and pushed out ( Read more... ) -
Recent Website Problems and Solutions
I wanted to give you an update as to all the frustrating problems we've been experiencing in the last 3 to 4 weeks. If you've received timeouts, blank pages or journals, comment threads or individual entries not loading at all -- or not looking like they should (i.e., without style sheets) when they *finally* do load -- then this will be of ( Read more... ) -
Payment Notification Problems Today - Feb 17, 2010
Ahhh, notifications, one of our favorite subjects. I do want to limit the scope of this entry to just the PAYMENT RECEIVED notifications that went out earlier this afternoon. I know that a sizable chunk of us are still having various problems receiving notifications on a timely basis and we are working on that ( Read more... ) -
Application Maintenance / Upgrades...
Hey fellow LJers,
First, I, mhwest, wanted to take a brief moment to remind you that tomorrow, Friday, January 29, 2010 we will be performing some upgrades to our MogileFS installation. We believe that the user impact will be less than noticeable, but we did want to remind you all that this was going to happen, we announced it in our previous posts ( Read more... )