Forums were down - Reason??

[Biltong (Dee)]

What the heck happened?

[H.E. Pennypacker]

What the heck happened?

Generally, it is due to maintenance. If you do need emergency assistance, you could always go to the Ubuntu IRC room. In other cases, where your problems aren't necessarily related to Ubuntu, you could go to the appropriate website. For example, if you have a problem with Gnome, you could go to the Gnome website.

[Biltong (Dee)]

I did, but prefer the company here.
Would love an explanation as to what they were up to though.

[xmastree]

What the heck happened?

I'll tell you what happened. I got broadband installed, that's what.

So, I thought, 'great, now I can install all the cool stuff' only to find that it was all dead... ](*,)

Great timing. :rolleyes:
By 'all' I mean not just the forums. The repo sites too so I couldn't even apt-get update.

[Biltong (Dee)]

Oh, I feel for you man...

[manicka]

The canonical servers were experiencing problems. many services were effected. Everything seems to be back to normal now :)

[Biltong (Dee)]

Terrorism, relocation, Blackout, unpaid webhosting, Tsunami...??

Not that I'm a curious sort or anything :-)

[manicka]

Terrorism, relocation, Blackout, unpaid webhosting, Tsunami...??

Not that I'm a curious sort or anything :-)

i've heard it may have been a massive power problem

[Biltong (Dee)]

Oh Boy.
That does, however, explain why my commercial site had very few enquiries today.:-k

[ubuntu-geek]

The data center canonical hosts in was without power. It took out all of the *.ubuntu.com sites .

[az]

Insert joke about Isle of Man here....


I spent the weekend away and only had a 28.8k connection. I though I had borked my brother's modem this morning!

[panickedthumb]

No, that's not true actually. We figured it out earlier this morning in #ubuntuforums. See the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.

It's a series of tubes.

It's obvious that those tubes were clogged up with all the cd images and updates that we we're doing, and that's why the internets we were trying to get from Canonical weren't working.

If this were Slashdot, I'd totally get modded down for such a terrible joke. Move along now, nothing to see here ;)

[benplaut]

we hear you panickedthumb... we hear you ;^)

[hellmet]

i was like WTF for almost the entire last half of yesterday.
Cud not open any damn ubuntu site.
cud not access repos..
oh!! now I understand the importance
of the Ubuntu server in my life!!

[apollo1900]

No, that's not true actually. We figured it out earlier this morning in #ubuntuforums. See the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.

It's a series of tubes.

It's obvious that those tubes were clogged up with all the cd images and updates that we we're doing, and that's why the internets we were trying to get from Canonical weren't working.

If this were Slashdot, I'd totally get modded down for such a terrible joke. Move along now, nothing to see here ;)

Why, why, why? Ahhhhhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

[mmcmonster]

I had problems with the us.[...] repositories when trying to install some dependencies for gnucash. I just switched to the uk. repos and everything works fine. I switched back now that everything is working, of course. ;-)

[s_h_a_d_o_w_s]

I remember this message a few times:

Sorry, the ubuntu servers are down. we are giving the servers some love.

[asimon]

Just curious, was an official explanation given?

[xmastree]

Not sure, but I remember reading there was a major power outage somewhere which took MSN spaces down for a while too. Of course, that made the news rather than ubuntu's servers...

[JarG0n]

Nah, all that's conspiracy theory. It was most certainly alien abduction.

[JarG0n]

No, that's not true actually. We figured it out earlier this morning in #ubuntuforums. See the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.

It's a series of tubes.

It's obvious that those tubes were clogged up with all the cd images and updates that we we're doing, and that's why the internets we were trying to get from Canonical weren't working.

If this were Slashdot, I'd totally get modded down for such a terrible joke. Move along now, nothing to see here ;)

Sir, your thumb avatar is just...... disturbing..... :confused:

[manicka]

Just curious, was an official explanation given?

see post 10

[asimon]

see post 10
Oops, somehow I must have missed this post. :roll:
Thanks.