Our site is now back online! Thanks to our admin and technical volunteers for helping us deal with this hardware problem
I am sorry to announce that Distributed Proofreaders is experiencing hardware issues and the site will be unavailable while we fully investigate and repair the problem. It is very important that we correct the problem in order to avoid data corruption.
I will keep you updated as we investigate further.
Thank you for your patience.
Linda Hamilton,
General Manager, Distributed Proofreaders
Updates:
10 Oct. 2024 3:40pm Server Time: The site is now back online. Thank you for your patience.
10 Oct. 2024 2:30pm Server Time: The checking continues, however the forums and wiki are now online and available.
10 Oct. 2024 1:30pm Server Time: We are currently carefully checking the site before hopefully making it live.
9 Oct. 2024 8:37pm Server Time: We have installed the new hardware and are copying over and verifying the data.
8 Oct. 2024 10:45pm Server Time: We have purchased required hardware and plan to install it tomorrow.
7 Oct. 2024 11:55pm Server Time: Our technical team has investigated the hardware issue and we have created a plan that we believe will deal with it.
7 Oct. 2024 4:14pm Server Time: Our technical team continue to work on the problem
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sorry, that was supposed to be ;(
Thank you so much for letting us know! Good luck with fixing it! xxx
Thanks to Linda for letting us know, and to Squirrels for investigating & fixing the issue.
Thank you, Linda H and everyone working on this!
I was wondering why it wouldn’t load! On the up side, I discovered the Facebook page and read more blog posts 🙂
Thank you for all your hard work!
Aw nertz. How am I supposed to feel like I’m contributing to humanity’s collective book knowledge for the next few hours?
Sorry to hear about the outage. If you are going through proofreading withdrawal you can always visit Distributed Proofreaders Canada for relief: https://www.pgdpcanada.net/c/default.php
That’s awesome! Thank you.
Thank you for the information and for your effort!
Regards.
Andrés
Thank you for the updates. Hope the technical team will be able to solve this hiccup. Thanks for the hardwork. All the best!
Hoping the site will be back soon. Well done to all the squirrels and busy beavers working so hard in the background on our behalf.
WIll there be a gofundme or another means to specifically contribute to the new hardware?
I’d love to help!
-Elissa
Thank you! Thanks to generous donations in the past, we have enough funds to handle this emergency. Once the DP site is back online though, any contribution will be welcomed.
Since I have a technical background I would be interested in knowing the details of the failure (e.g. backplane, RAID controller, etc.). I also assume that a move to the cloud (i.e. AWS) would be cost prohibitive if you are getting subsidized hosting.
If you send me a private message after we’re back, I’ll get you the information.
Small point – this series of posts may be better categorised as “Notices” rather than “Book review”.
This series of posts may be better categorised as “Notices” rather than “Book review”.
Big thanks to all who had a part in getting DP back online … and those who continue to work on the details behind the scenes!