Archive for 2012

Service outage due to network checks

Saturday, December 15th, 2012, 11:34 by Roi

Due to network problems and the check of the switchport and the NIC of the server all Jabber services and this website will be down for some time starting today at 2:00pm CET.

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Monday, November 19th, 2012, 11:28 by Roi

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Service outage due to third hard disk failure since summer

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012, 16:52 by Roi

Due to the third hard disk failure since summer all Jabber services and this website will be down for some time starting today at 10:00pm CET. Sorry guys, but the hard disk needs to be replaced. But for events like this the server runs a RAID1 array.

/EDIT 7:18pm: Our server provider needs more tests, so the 10pm date is cancelled. We will announce the service outage in a new blog article when clear.

Service outage due to another hard disk failure

Friday, October 12th, 2012, 08:37 by Roi

Due to another hard disk failure all Jabber services and this website will be down for some time starting today at 11:45pm CEST. Sorry guys, but the hard disk needs to be replaced. But for events like this the server runs a RAID1 array.

Twitter migrated to Spectrum 2

Wednesday, August 15th, 2012, 15:08 by Roi

Along with other transports in the last days and weeks Twitter was migrated to Spectrum 2 today.

With Twitter you have some more features. Instead of using the personal messages from twitter.com@twitter.jabber.hot-chilli.net you can use your personal Twitter chatroom at #twitter@twitter.jabber.hot-chilli.net.

Sending #help to the Twitter transport gives you this:

#status ==> Update your status
#timeline [username] ==> Retrieve ‘s timeline; Default – own timeline
@ ==> Send a directed message to the user
#retweet ==> Retweet the tweet having id
#follow ==> Follow user
#unfollow ==> Stop Following user
#mode [012] ==> Switch mode to 0(single), 1(multiple) or 2(chatroom)
#help ==> Print this help message

Jabber server back online with new hard disk

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012, 14:42 by Roi

The server is back online again with a brand new 3TB hard disk. The RAID array is rebuilding now. The services were down from 12:30pm to 1:15pm CEST.

Service outage due to hard disk failure

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012, 11:44 by Roi

Due to a hard disk failure all Jabber services and this website will be down for some time starting today at 12:45pm CEST. Sorry guys, but the hard disk needs to be replaced. But for events like this the server runs a RAID1 array.

URL change for web presence

Friday, July 27th, 2012, 08:45 by Roi

The URL for the web presence service has changed, please see here.