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May 2013, Report

chauffer May 11, 2013 News, Reports

Hello, freeBNC! Here’s a list of things that happened since last report: New Japanese server! New server in the Netherlands (previous one had stability issues) We have 8 ZNC nodes now! Things may be reworked soon, in the backend, to provide a better service. (Also, considering to run a paid service, without discontuining freeBNC; for “premium” stuff)

US2 is back

chauffer April 19, 2013 News, Servers

Hello. I’ve recently brought our US2 server back up. The problem was on Amazon’s AWS end. «Thank you for contacting AWS Support regarding your EC2 instance availability. We apologize that it is currently unreachable for you. I took a look at the instance in our system, and I can see that the underlying hardware for this

US2 node status

chauffer April 18, 2013 Uncategorized

As most of you noticed lately on, the US2 node has been down since yesterday. I personally apologize for the outage. I’ve checked with Amazon today, since I couldn’t be able to before; I tried rebooting the instance, but the Amazon checks themselves failed to detect a properly running server. There’s a support ticket going

Internal Improvements & Early April Report

chauffer April 9, 2013 News, Reports

Hello, freeBNC users! A lot passed since last report, so let’s sum up changes. Most servers were reinstalled; with a downtime of ~2 minutes per server, they’re running fine since ~2 weeks. US2 moved from SiliconValley to AWS New servers! Namely, Netherlands and what you can see as «localhost» on status.freebnc.net, which is not used

Webchat back up on every server

chauffer March 30, 2013 Uncategorized

As the title suggests; webchat was set up again on all the BNC servers. The links, are as usual, just the server’s hostname: http://ie.freebnc.net for Ireland, http://au.freebnc.net for Australia, and so on. You can check the webchat status on our status minisite. Chauffe

Status minisite

chauffer March 28, 2013 Servers

Hello! In the past day, I’ve set up a mini-site for monitoring purposes, uptime and such. The informations you can see about each server are: Used/Free RAM Network Status (upload/download) Used/Free HDD Server Load (unix) Server Uptime ZNC Status The script also supports the drawing of graphs; just click on the time-lapse you wish to control. You can reach

Servers Migration Completed!

chauffer March 27, 2013 News, Servers

I’m proud to announce that this evening I just finished migrating all the servers that had to be. At the moment, just ZNC is running on those; meaning there *won’t be* webchat for the time being. (It should be back by the beginning of April) The downtime for the last two servers (br, au) was

Servers Move – day #2

chauffer March 26, 2013 News, Servers

Updates, so far! US2, SG and IE moved to new servers. Only BR and AU are now to move to new servers, which will happen by the end of the month. (also, did I mention, we will most likely get three new servers next month?) DNS records for the new servers should work fine, in

Servers Move

chauffer March 24, 2013 Uncategorized

For organization and stability purpose, most servers are going to move. Those are: us2 br au ie sg This means the servers will be down for ~1h each; not all at once. You will be able to connect to the new server via the hostname new-servername.freebnc.net (e.g. new-us2.freebnc.net) while the original one propagates. US2 is going

Poll – New Server

chauffer February 8, 2013 News, Servers

As freeBNC recently got some donations, there may be a new server. The choice is between The Netherlands, Canada and Turkey. I’ll let you choose on this one! The poll will be closed when there’ll be enough results for us to choose which server to get

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