From 0036e2ec6251a5fa5a7b5cfc5102657743250b71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesper Hess Nielsen Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 08:48:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add blog post about downtime --- .../2017-04-07-downtime-for-all-services.md | 20 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2017-04-07-downtime-for-all-services.md diff --git a/_posts/2017-04-07-downtime-for-all-services.md b/_posts/2017-04-07-downtime-for-all-services.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..22be182 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2017-04-07-downtime-for-all-services.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: Downtime for all services +layout: post +--- + +As you probably noticed, connectivity to all services provided by xmpp.dk was lost at around midnight CET on the 6th of April. +The outage was not a systems failure of any kind but was purely my own fault. Here's a break-down of the events that led to the outage: + +1. I had forgotten to enable auto-renewal on my credit card to renew the service when it expired +1. When the time of expiry approached, I was stuck in bed due to illness and thus I didn't see the emails from my hosting provider :( + +So this doesn't happen again in the future, I have enabled auto-renewal on my hosting service. I will also set up some form of external monitoring +that can notify me through other means than email. + +I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused by this outage and I promise to do my best that things like this won't happen again. In time, I +hope to move this service to dedicated hardware - I just need to figure out how to cover the running costs of a dedicated server. + +Please remember to subscribe to [twitter][twitter]. + +[twitter]: https://twitter.com/xmppdk \ No newline at end of file