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Posted 1 week 4 days ago

Over the last few weeks, a few high-profile accounts on Identi.ca, like @methoddan and @jezra, were inexplicably locked out of the system. I'm currently analyzing the possible causes, but I wanted to give a general idea of what's going on.

Here are my current suspected causes:

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by Evan Prodromou

freelish.us is back online!

Posted 1 week 6 days ago

Our upgrade to StatusNet 1.0.0 in September 2011 had some unfortunate side-effects. Some of the public services we ran were taken off-line after the upgrade... and never returned.

One of the most beloved, freelish.us, the Open Source, Open Content bookmark-sharing service, has been requested (emphatically) by many users. Most of the functionality has been subsumed by the rest of StatusNet, but we wanted to have it back up anyway. As of this past weekend, the server is back on-line.

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bookmark, freelishus, sharing

by Evan Prodromou

Identi.ca blackout 18 Jan 2012 8AM-8PM EST to protest SOPA/PIPA

Posted 3 weeks 2 days ago

Identi.ca will join Reddit, the Cheezburger Network, and dozens of other web sites in protest of the Stop Online Privacy Act proposed in the US Congress and its corresponding Senate bill, Protect IP.

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blackout, identica, protest, sopa

by Evan Prodromou

PubSubHubbub W3C Community group

Posted 3 weeks 5 days ago

There is a new proposed community group for PubSubHubbub at the W3C.

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group, ostatus, pubsubhubbub, standards, w3c

by Evan Prodromou

Identi.ca down [UPDATE: not any more]

Posted 6 weeks 6 days ago

Identi.ca is currently down; I just got off an airplane. We had a flood of new users and posters over the last 24 hours, and the extra traffic seems to have sunk our database server.

I'm trying to revive the server (it's currently re-starting), but I might take the opportunity to move to our new data centre. If we're down, maybe it's time to do the move. Watch this space for details.

Update 14:50 PM PST: I can't seem to revive the main database server, so I'm copying data to another server in the same data centre to see if it wants to wake up.

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by Evan Prodromou

Identi.ca scheduled downtime Thu 12/15 10PM EDT [CANCELED]

Posted 7 weeks 6 days ago

Update: The DNS TTL on identi.ca is far too high for this to work tonight. I'm going to dial it down and hopefully move next week.

I'll be moving the main servers for Identi.ca to our new data centre in the Rackspace Cloud. This is going to require a lot of data copying, so there's going to be some downtime while it moves. I expect somewhere between 4 and 12 hours.

There'll be a new blog post up with status updates on Thursday.

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by Evan Prodromou

Unscheduled downtime for Identi.ca

Posted 9 weeks 4 days ago

We had about 6 hours of unscheduled downtime tonight due to a bad slave server.

The site is back up now. Sorry for the disruption.

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by Evan Prodromou

Mark Ruddock Steps Down as StatusNet CEO

Posted 11 weeks 5 days ago

Mark Ruddock, CEO of StatusNet Inc., has resigned his position with the company to pursue other opportunities in the on-line financial sector. Evan Prodromou, founder and CTO, has been appointed to replace him as CEO.

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by Evan Prodromou

Scheduled downtime for some StatusNet cloud sites 16 Nov 2011 10PM EST

Posted 11 weeks 6 days ago

Over the last month, I've been gradually moving sites on the StatusNet cloud service to our new platform on the Rackspace Cloud. Side note: we've used almost every virtual server system in existence, and I can say without qualms that Rackspace Cloud is the best by far. I'm a big fan, and I'm glad we're making this move.

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cloud, downtime, scs, statusnet

by Evan Prodromou

Seeking international system administrators

Posted 12 weeks 4 days ago

I'm looking to hire 1-2 part-time system administrators for help with StatusNet sites, including identi.ca. One in an East Asian timezone (around GMT+8, give or take an hour or two), another in the European slice of the earth (say, around GMT).

Responsibility will be to be on-call for our hosted services in your timezone, handle relatively easy system administration issues as they arise, and escalate for things that need more work.

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