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The database and entire service for ALL Atomic Systems is being transported to a new server. Expect intermittent service and total failures throughout today. Normal service should be resumed by this evening. Indeed, better than normal service because if its just normal service (ie slow in the evenings!) then we wasted our time and $500…

The astute amongst you may have noticed that DearDiary still hasn't moved to its new home. There's a good technical reason for this lack of motion. The server we're moving to has some resource restrictions (notably the number of files it can contain) and there's some legacy parts of the system which use a number…

Hi folks, Just to let you all know, todays outage was unrelated to Sunday’s downtime, although, as a result of the fulltext indexes it meant that todays failure was excerbated by the extreme slowness of rebuilding the indexes after a failure. So, what do we learn from this experience to endeavour to ensure it doesn’t…

In case anyone has been having trouble with those blasted transparent caching proxies (ie, if you made a change to something and returned later to find an old, stale page instead then you were probably the victim of a proxy) I have made some changes to AtMail as part of this build which should reduce…

I will be requesting our hosting provider to perform the server upgrade mentioned previously, tomorrow. This means that the server will be in a read only mode from tomorrow morning (GMT) to allow backups to be taken and to ensure everything is safely stored away. This will mean that you will be UNABLE to login…

Not a system announcement, but related to the tragedy in the US. We received this nice poem in the mail from one of our users and thought we’d share it. the gap by elysabeth forrest there’s a gap in the famed skyline where two towers used to stand in the place of the majestic scene…