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Tonight's outage

Our Burchett Place datacenter suffered a power outage at approximately 22:30 GMT tonight.

Our backup systems kicked in and kept most of the network up but we lost some connectively and some services.

Rather than risk draining our backup systems completely we decided to shut down everything and wait for the power to be restored which it was about 5 minutes ago.

We're still checking the final few systems are back online but all services from Inca, Zapotec and Nazca are now back online. No other servers were affected.

Bug fix on sites listings

Today we noticed a small bug on the sites listings which resulted in sites which have the same name as other sites (usually an old and new when they are both online) using the wrong URLs. This has now been taken care of.

As far as we can tell it only affected the lists for WorfolkOnline.com and SpoofBox.com linking to the old sites on both listings. They both now point to the correct URL.

Inca back online

We took Inca online at 14:46 this afternoon to move her to a different datacenter, as mentioned in our previous post, to the one where Maya is currently located.

The move has now been pretty much complete. We got her back online at about 17:00, maybe slightly before, but services have been going up and down as we played around with the network setup.

All services have now been restored and are available to use once again.

Inca datacenter move 2

We are once again moving Inca to a different datacenter, the one that Maya is now located at.

This will involve several hours of downtime during the afternoon today (Sunday). Only users who use the services on Inca will be affected, everthing else will be running as normal.

Corporate re-design

After the fresh new look we've just given this site we are also working on a new and updated version of our corporate site, Worfolk.biz.

The new site will remain largely the same in terms of design and will just smooth over a few issues and get things looking a little better.

The behind the scenes changes have been a little more extensive though - we've redone the site in CSS so that it cuts out a lot of the code and makes the site much faster to load.

More importantly we're changing the content, bringing it up to date, adding more information where needed and removing the content that nobody reads.

We're also debating the idea of adding a corporate blog to track the major developments although that is still to be decided on.

Version 4d launches

You may notice that things are looking a little different around here - the site has a new colour scheme, we've ditched the black and gone for a nice white layout to make it match with the rest of our corporate sites and because it's a bit easier to read.

We've also added some new information, a fresh new logo and generally done some updating to the site.

Sarah Jane goes live

To help spread the load of of traffic across the network we have added a new server to the network, nicknamed Sarah Jane.

We've been working on configuring it for the past week now and finally transfered the first site over yesterday - Quiz Baby is the first site to be moved across and is now up and running on the new server.

Inca power outage

Due to a fault discovered with the building, we are having to turn the power off for several hours starting at 13:00 BST today. During this time Inca will be offline.

Inca datacenter move

Inca will be down for scheduled downtime later today as we move her to a different datacenter. We expect the move to start at around 16:00 and last approximately 2-3 hours.

We will also be completing some maintenance before it goes offline to bring everything up to date and ensure everything is running. This should not affect any services however.

Email issues update

This is just a quick update to explain what is going on with our email systems. The problems have now been resolved and we are in the process of sorting the backlog of mail.

While we have now sorted most of it, we still have a lot of mail to reply to but we hope to have it all cleared within the next few days.