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There will be some maintenace on our network infrastructure.
Downtime is expected between 2AM PST to 4AM PST on Saturday May 15th. There will be a few service interruptions during this time span.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
If you have questions, please visit our community forums.
This is the first in a series of articles describing the features and changes to the next major upgrade to IPBFREE. Information presented may or may not be in the final product.
Introduction
IPBFREE 3.0 is the next generation of IPBFREE software. The goal of this version was to give IPBFREE a complete facelift:
We concentrated on making [...]
Today we have a quick update, firstly we say Happy birthday(s) to the following.
BurntBiscuits who is 17
Titus who is 20
Adoleavalge who is the grand old age of 39
snaipe who is 17
On to a more pressing matter, our dearest Tombob is doing lots of work and getting no reward for it you can show you [...]
We are preforming maintenance on the servers at 12AM PST (8AM GMT) tonight. We have placed notices on all boards regarding the downtime.
We are expecting downtime for about an hour.
We will be changing our network IPs shortly (within the next 24 hours). This change will result in some downtime (less than 1 hour) for most users.
However, forum owners who use a custom domain (mydomain.com) for their forums may experience longer downtimes. To reduce the downtime, lower the TTL on your DNS service to a [...]
There is currently power outage affecting the community/support forums (forums.ipbfree.com). All other ipbfree.com sites should be available.
We will update this post as more information becomes available.
A few users have reported some spam issues. We have added a few methods for blocking the spam. It is automatic and nothing needs to be enabled. Please let us know if the spam countermeasures are working (via Support Forums).
Tom wrote up a quick tutorial on limiting the PM spam. it may help while we [...]
The recent power failures was due to faulty network hardware. It will be replaced within two hours. The servers will go down during the replacement. Sorry, for the inconvenience.
-UPDATED 7AM PST-
We are still waiting for an update from the NOC. It looks like the bad hardware has not been replaced yet (probably because it was [...]
Last night there was an issue at the datacenter that caused all the servers the reboot. This reboot caused one of the servers to boot incorrectly and resulted in downtime that lasted several hours. We deeply apologize for the downtime that occurred and the inconvenience it caused to our users.
For more information or questions, please visit forums.ipbfree.com .
With the recent changes to the support board’s structure and obviously with the huge change from iPBFree to Phalanx (due as soon as it’s ready) some of the staff members and I have decided to keep the changes moving, it is therefore with great pleasure that we release the all new iPBFree Podcast (cue fanfare!).
This [...]