MetaFilter Status Blog

Maintenance Tonight

We have some scheduled server maintenance tonight at 11:00pm Pacific. We plan to be offline for about 30 minutes.

Update (11:30 PM): We're back!

ISP Down

MetaFilter is offline. Our ISP lost their Internet connection. Sorry about this interruption. We'll update here when we know more.

Update (1:02 PM): We're back! As you were.

Maintenance Time

It's that time again. We'll be down for 15-20 minutes at 10:00pm Pacific. Update: We're back at 10:09.

Server Problems

We're having some server trouble this morning and investigating now. We'll update when we know more.

Update: All systems are go.

Static Server Woes

You might be wondering where profile images went. So are we! We're working on restoring the images from a backup and they should be back soon.

Update: Profile pictures are back in place.

Static Server Down

Our scheduled maintenance went well tonight, but our static file server is having some unscheduled downtime. We're working with the ISP to bring it back online. This outage affects MeFi Music MP3 files and profile images.

Update: (11:36pm) The static files are flowing again.

Maintenance Tonight

It's that time again. We'll be down for 15-20 minutes at 10:00pm Pacific. Update: We're back at 10:12!

Maintenance Tonight

Last one for a while. We'll be down for 15-20 minutes at 10:00pm Pacific. Update (10:10pm): Done!

Maintenance Again

It's yet another maintenance night tonight. Same drill, down for 15-20 minutes at 10:00pm Pacific. The goal is a faster site at the end of all these. Update 10:15pm: Done!

Maintenance Tonight

We need to do some more server maintenance tonight. We'll be offline for 15-20 minutes starting at 10:00pm Pacific. Update (10:35): We're back! (Down for about five minutes this time.)