New Year, Old ILX

Old ILX is back at http://ilxor.com/ILX/. There are still a few teething troubles, so there may be some outages over the next few days while we're tuning things, but hopefully this will be back for good.

The Sandbox will be off for a day or two while things settle down.

There's two kinds of news

Good News: Just about ready to bring ILX back up.

Bad News: Rebuilding the indexes etc from scratch is taking up all the server's capacity, so the Sandbox will be down while that's going on. It'll be back by this evening at the latest.

Quick update

Short version: Still working out best route to replace our server; have extra hands on deck; have some good options here. I reckon a full ILX back in a week or two. May be some fundraising required.

Long version: here

Sandbox

Still a few issues, but the sandbox is up at beta.ilxor.com -- use your sandbox account to log in, if you have one. (If you don't, register again).

Update, update

Have got a temporary home sorted out, and all the basics needed to run ILX are in place. The sandbox db is uploaded, and it's all mostly working

I need to leave some things running overnight, and there are some more fixes required, but I should able to turn on the sandbox again by tomorrow. Will post here when it's done.

Optimistic

... stet was optimistic. The cause of the database problem I mentioned yesterday turned out to be a dead hard disk, which means the server is going to be out of action for a while. Give me a day or two, I'll sort out a temporary home of some kind.

(NB: Nothing has been lost, all the backups are fine)

Same as the old god

A database problem this morning meant taking the server down. Shouldn't be gone for too long.