03:29 MAYBE BACK
Looks like clearnet is back online. Hope it stays that way.
02:50 FILES BACK
You can use Trashchan fully again... on TOR. Clearnet is I have no fucking idea, because the only place this fucking BuyVM can manage any information is fucking dicksword, which is supposed to be bridged to matrix, but that bridge also doesn't work and doesn't bridge the channel that I'd need.
22:10 FRANCISCO FRANNED IT
I don't know why did I even think that Francisco won't fuck up things that he wasn't even supposed to touch, but anyway, here we are. TOR works, clearnet not.
17:41 SITE IS NOW RUNNING WITHOUT FILES
Expect 404 errors when trying to open images/videos, don't be alarmed, they're safe.
SCHEDULED DOWNTIME
There's a scheduled downtime 2024-02-04T18:00:00Z (if I managed to parse correctly the martian time in the email). They say it's up to 8 hours, but given their track record, I recommend you double that.
Keep https://trashchan-status.neocities.org/ bookmarked, where I'll try to provide status information.
Below is a copy of the email I received.
>Starting at 10:00AM on February 4th (this weekend) we will be performing a complete overhaul of the storage network used by our Blockstorage Slabs and private LAN connections. We are booking an 8 hour downtime window, but expect the work to be done in well under half of that.
>We request that you don’t open any support tickets about this maintenance and instead drop by our Discord where we’ll post updates.
>How the maintenance will be performed
>On Sunday Francisco will arrive at the datacenter and prep the switches (initial configuration, attach inner rails, etc). Once we’re ready we’ll issue a mass SHUTDOWN to any service with a Slab attached. We will then wait 5 minutes before we issue a HARD OFF to your service. Once the switches are installed, We’ll mass boot everyone that’s currently offline.
>If you don’t wish to have your VPS powered off during this maintenance, please make sure your slab is disconnected before hand! If your VPS doesn’t have a slab, it won’t be affected!
>So, what’d you break this time?
>Over the past 6 months we’ve had multiple outages (some lasting many hours due it happening in the middle of the night) where our current switches lock up/crash, disconnecting whatever slabs are connected to those nodes/services. We’ve decided it’s time to completely replace them.
>When we originally built our Slab products the platform we used took full advantage of Infiniband. As of July 2022 we replaced this system as it was also causing mass platform pauses/lockups, and also fell behind in software updates, requiring we stay on ancient kernel versions. The new system we put in place works happily with plain old ethernet.
>The final straw was a switch we replaced at the start of January, locked up again, but this time caused cascading issues on all other switches in the fabric.
>As always, we thank you for your patronage.
>BuyVM Staff
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