Author Archives: Jacques Chester
Ozblogistan will be offline tonight.
Hello all, your friendly Ozblogistan Tyrant here. Tonight I am going to be moving to new servers. All the Ozblogistan sites (Andrew Norton, Catallaxy Files, Club Troppo, Henry’s Lore, John Quiggin, Larvatus Prodeo, Sensible Social Policy and Skepticlawyer) will be … Continue reading
Today’s outage
Approximately 4 hours ago, Ozblogistan began to receive a very high level of traffic. During this period my performance tracking tools stopped working so it is difficult to tell how much traffic was received during the period. A few minutes … Continue reading
We’re back
If you see this message, you’re on the new servers at the original providers. Moses ain’t got nothing on me.
Time for Kittens
Hello all, your friendly Ozblogistan Tyrant speaking. Unfortunately the technical issues with Page.ly have grown more and more severe in the past two days. So I am now preparing to perform the migration of shame: Ozblogistan will be returning to … Continue reading
The Second Migration
That you can see this post means you’re on the new server. Welcome. There will be glitches — duplicates and the like. Sorry about the disruption, but I hoped you all enjoyed the kittens and the dalek.
It’s broken
Hello everyone, your friendly Ozblogistan Tyrant here. Ozblogistan was moved to new servers on Monday night by some subcontractors. The ensuing few days have been a mess because the move was only incompletely successful. In particular, bloggers have been unable … Continue reading
Disruption
Hello all, your friendly Ozblogistan Tyrant here. This weekend I will be performing one of the biggest changes made to Ozblogistan in several years. I am moving the site from its current home to a new one. The new service … Continue reading
Hacked again
Hello all, your friendly Ozblogistan Tyrant here, abusing my multisite posting powers. This morning I received two independent reports of trojan warnings being given for two different Ozblogistan websites. After investigation, I have determined that the server was automatically compromised, … Continue reading
Planned Outage Tonight
Hello everyone, it’s your friendly Ozblogistan Tyrant here. I plan to migrate our servers to a different data centre tonight. There will be some disruption during the move, and it may take time for your DNS records to be updated. … Continue reading
John Quiggin joins Ozblogistan network
John Quiggin has upped stumps at his previous provider Joyent and moved in alongside Club Troppo, Catallaxy Files, Larvatus Prodeo and other leading Australian blogs here at Ozblogistan. John is one of the long standing fixtures of the Australian blogging … Continue reading