Site issue, we were down for a little bit

[mark]

Hey folks --

If you were online a bit ago, you might have seen that Dreamwidth wasn't working. Sorry about that! We're back to normal now and I think the problem shouldn't recur.

For technical details: one of our databases was undergoing some maintenance, it looks like. This normally is an invisible operation, but for some reason the failover to the replica didn't go smoothly and we had both databases offline for about 20 minutes.

Once the maintenance was complete and the primary instance came back online, the replica was able to reconnect and we were back up and running.

Normally these events are transparent to y'all, so I'm not sure precisely why this one wasn't. Anyway, the maintenance is done, so I don't anticipate further issues. And again, apologies for the interruption.

Comments

[dandylover1]

Thank you for letting us know. I truly love how caring the staff of Dreamwidth is. This is why it's a pleasure to be here! As someone who is totally blind, I also wish to thank you for the wonderful screen reader accessibility of this site! It is a relief knowing how devoted you are to that, and that I won't log in one day and discover that the site has become unusable!