We're in the process of updating the server. You probably noticed about 20min of downtime and things may be up and down throughout this evening but should resume and hopefully be faster later today and tomorrow.
posted by mathowie on Aug 20, 2007 - 32 comments

Woot, we're back up. Sorry about the downtime.
posted by mathowie on Sep 13, 2006 - 104 comments

Sorry about the downtime today, it looks like some comment spammers were DoSing the box with requests for long-dead trackback URLs. After that was cleaned up, some other weird bugs kept the server unavailable for a few hours, but things should be back to normal now.
posted by mathowie on Feb 13, 2006 - 26 comments

Sorry for the downtime, I was tweaking one small aspect of the server when a comedy of errors ended up with two hours of hair pulling before the server was reachable once again. Everything should be back to normal now.
posted by mathowie on Aug 15, 2005 - 10 comments

MetaFilter, MetaTalk, and Ask Metafilter might be sporadic over the next day or so, as the server hosting the DNS has died for now. Hopefully that server will be back tomorrow morning, but if not, you could hack your hosts file to point the three domains at 209.10.108.201.

If you see the sites unreachable by morning, that's why.
posted by mathowie on Feb 4, 2004 - 14 comments

Just a heads up, I'm in the middle of a slightly messed up software upgrade in process - expect things to be broken for the next few hours
posted by mathowie on Jan 29, 2004 - 32 comments

Uptime will probably be sporadic over the next few days while I do some software and hardware upgrades. On the upside, I get to bask in the glow of the server while I do the upgrades.
posted by mathowie on Jul 11, 2003 - 28 comments

Sorry about the downtime, I was moving from one place to another, far away. Things should be back to normal now.
posted by mathowie on Jul 1, 2003 - 33 comments

There seems to be a router problem somewhere on the east coast (looks like globex's mae east facility is having probs), according to my traceroutes. I can barely reach the site. If you're having trouble connecting as well, that's the issue, it's not the server or Jason's t-1 line.
posted by mathowie on Oct 6, 2001 - 0 comments

Sorry about the server probs this afternoon (more)
posted by mathowie on Sep 28, 2001 - 5 comments

There were DNS issues today, there might be more soon, as I switch to new servers. Beware.
posted by mathowie on Mar 8, 2001 - 0 comments

ugh. Server is slow/dying for no known reason. I'll be trying to get the new server up as soon as I can this week.
posted by mathowie on Jun 21, 2000 - 0 comments

Ok, so it's no longer late May, and the site's not up. Wanna know why? read here...
posted by mathowie on Jun 3, 2000 - 2 comments

Just an FYI: thanks to the enormous generosity of my dad, there will be a new server for MetaFilter, which should be up sometime next week.

Lately the traffic has been killing the box, and memory is always being maxed out.

The new box will have more than double the horsepower in terms of Mhz and RAM. It'll be kickass.
posted by mathowie on May 26, 2000 - 7 comments

Just a warning - MetaFilter will be moving servers at the end of the month, which will be a down time of a couple days.
posted by mathowie on Mar 14, 2000 - 2 comments