Scheduled Downtime

[Floris]

Wednesday; January 5, 2011. XENFANS, server and software maintenance is scheduled for tomorrow. The sites will be unreachable shortly, and the forums closed for about a couple of hours.

Scheduled Downtime: Thursday, January 6, 2011.
[edit: We've completed our tasks ]

We're sure some of our visitors aren't experiencing any downtime at all, but we're letting you know up-front so you know what's going on. Some of the 15 tasks we're performing are:

• Domain / DNS Management
• Dedicated Server Maintenance
• Community Software Upgrade
• Style Update, refresh.
• Database Maintenance
• System / Files / Databases Backup
• 2011 Features Prototyping / Testing

To protect the privacy of your, and our data we've decided to Sandbox the live site while working on the tasks.

You're free to come to the live chat with questions or to pass the time, http://vbirc.com/chat

Sales / Support questions can be mailed to contact@xenfans.com - which will have no downtime.

We appreciate your support and patience,

XenFans Team

 

[Floris]

Thursday; September 1st, 2011. XENFANS, in the next hour we will start a scheduled maintenance on the front-, and back end of our board. This will come with a closed board message. We anticipate it all to take no longer than an hour tops.

Scheduled Downtime: Thursday, September 1st, 2011.
[edit: We've successfully completed our maintenance.]

Some of the 9 tasks we're performing are:

• Domain / DNS Management
• Server Maintenance
• Community Software Optimization
• Template Updates
• Database Maintenance
• Account / Databases Backup

To protect the privacy of your, and our data we've decided to Sandbox the live site while working on the tasks.

You're free to come to the live chat with questions or to pass the time, http://vbirc.com/chat

Sales / Support questions can be mailed to contact@xenfans.com - which will be up with staff ready to answer your tickets.

We appreciate your support and patience,

XenFans Team

 

[Floris]

We received the following notice from our hosting provider:

Dear LeaseWeb customer,

On Wednesday, September 21st, 2011, we will be performing a power maintenance. This has to be done to guarantee the up-time and service you expect from us.

In case you have multiple servers, this maintenance will affect only those servers whose primary IP address falls within the range 94.75.233.1 to 94.75.233.123

We anticipate that this work will take no more than 2 hours to complete, and will commence at 10:00AM.

Your server will be unavailable during this window.

During this maintenance, your server has to be powered off. Please shut down your server a few minutes before the indicated start time. If your server is still powered, LeaseWeb shall power it off.
LeaseWeb will power your server on after the maintenance.

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC + 2 hours).

If you have any questions regarding this maintenance, please let us know by replying on this message.

Kind regards,
LeaseWeb Support

XenFans.com has the IP 94.75.233.10

 

[Floris]

Seeing we were down earlier, but are up now. I assume that they've completed their maintenance.

 

[Floris]

There won't be any downtime, but we will have some sluggish performance today as we do some behind the scene maintenance. Our apologies, but thank you for your patience.