We need to perform some maintenance on the servers tonight at 10PM Pacific. We'll be offline for 30 minutes or so. Update (10:04pm): We're back! We didn't need 30 minutes after all. Continue reading

We need to perform some server maintenance tonight at 10:00 PM Pacific Time. We plan to be offline for 30-40 minutes. Continue reading

MetaFilter is currently offline. We're working with our ISP to find out why. Sorry about the interruption. Update: Our ISP had a power event in the datacenter where our servers are. They're working on it. Update 2: They fixed it! Continue reading

We need to perform some server maintenance tomorrow night at 10:00 PM Pacific Time. We plan to be offline for 20-30 minutes. Update: We're back! (Around 10:10) Continue reading

We need to perform some server maintenance tonight at 10:00 PM Pacific Time. We plan to be offline for 20-30 minutes. Update: We're back! (Around 10:11) Continue reading

We need to perform some server maintenance tonight at 10:00 PM Pacific Time. We plan to be offline for 30 minutes. Update: We're back! (Around 10:30) Continue reading

The intermittent connection errors that we've had over the last 24 hours should be gone now. Thanks for your patience. Continue reading

Many users are experiencing intermittent connection issues getting to MetaFilter sites. We're working with our ISP and hope to have them cleared up soon. We posted some more information in MetaTalk. Continue reading

We're going to have some scheduled maintenance Dec 14th at 10:00 pm Pacific. The site will be down for 15-20 minutes. Update: We're back! (Around 10:20) Continue reading

We have some scheduled maintenance tonight. We'll be offline for about 30 minutes starting at 10:00pm Pacific. Update (10:30pm): It's taking a little longer than expected. We expect to be up in another 20 minutes or so. Sorry about the interruption. Update (11:00pm): We're back! All systems are go. Continue reading

We have some scheduled server maintenance tonight at 11:00pm Pacific. We plan to be offline for about 30 minutes. Update (11:30 PM): We're back! Continue reading

MetaFilter is offline. Our ISP lost their Internet connection. Sorry about this interruption. We'll update here when we know more. Update (1:02 PM): We're back! As you were. Continue reading

It's that time again. We'll be down for 15-20 minutes at 10:00pm Pacific. Update: We're back at 10:09. Continue reading

We're having some server trouble this morning and investigating now. We'll update when we know more. Update: All systems are go. Continue reading

You might be wondering where profile images went. So are we! We're working on restoring the images from a backup and they should be back soon. Update: Profile pictures are back in place. Continue reading

Our scheduled maintenance went well tonight, but our static file server is having some unscheduled downtime. We're working with the ISP to bring it back online. This outage affects MeFi Music MP3 files and profile images. Update: (11:36pm) The static files are flowing again. Continue reading

It's that time again. We'll be down for 15-20 minutes at 10:00pm Pacific. Update: We're back at 10:12! Continue reading

Last one for a while. We'll be down for 15-20 minutes at 10:00pm Pacific. Update (10:10pm): Done! Continue reading

It's yet another maintenance night tonight. Same drill, down for 15-20 minutes at 10:00pm Pacific. The goal is a faster site at the end of all these. Update 10:15pm: Done! Continue reading

We need to do some more server maintenance tonight. We'll be offline for 15-20 minutes starting at 10:00pm Pacific. Update (10:35): We're back! (Down for about five minutes this time.) Continue reading

We're going to be offline for scheduled maintenance starting at 10:00 pm Pacific tonight. We plan to be offline for 15-20 minutes. Update (10:10pm): We're back! Continue reading

Our DNS provider is having some trouble right now. They're under DDOS attack and tweeting about it right now. What that means for MetaFilter is that some of our sites may become unreachable for a time. Right now our static server seems hardest hit, so there could be issues loading stylesheets, images, and scripts for the sites. We're looking at DNS hosting alternatives, and hoping easyDNS can work through these problems quickly. Continue reading

Time for server updates at 10:00 pm Pacific. We plan to be offline for 15 minutes. Update: We're back! Continue reading

Guess what? Time for server updates at 10:00 pm Pacific. We plan to be offline for 15 minutes. Update (10:10pm): We're back! Continue reading