Well everyone, I've been contemplating it for a long time, and finally decided to replace this community with a Twitter feed. While the LJ community is nice to have, very few status updates require more information than a Twitter post can convey, and since I now have multi-account Twitter clients on practically every electronic device I own, a Twitter feed is a LOT easier to update than an LJ community.

This will still be used if I have a particularly verbose message to post, or if I need a non-Lupinia website to link to for a status post (ie, during forum maintenance for web forums). But, it will be updated even less than it is now. The new Twitter feed will hopefully be updated more regularly (I plan on doing so, anyway).

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At 20:30 this evening (GMT -4), the Feralys RP forums will be going down for an upgrade to SMF 2.0. This upgrade should take no more than 30-45 minutes at most.

EDIT: There were some complications involved in the upgrade. I'll keep this updated, but for now, I can't give an ETA for the forums to come back up.

[EDIT: Maintenance over.]

In an effort to improve efficiency server-wide, I'm re-doing the way our "Static Content" host is set up. Instead of being FT-specific, it will now house data for all sites hosted by Lupinia. Since making this change will cause things to look rather broken for the next few minutes, I decided to put the forums in maintenance mode while I work.

Things will be back to normal in a few minutes.

Starting around midnight EST (GMT -5), FT will be down for forum upgrades. This will take an unknown amount of time, but the site will be back up as soon as possible.

In an effort to reduce the amount of money we're spending on domains every year, we're in the process of migrating our domains to a new bulk registrar. Since our little DNS server gets rather hammered, and our new registrar has much better DNS support than others we've used, we'll be moving most of our DNS services there as well.

What does this mean for most of you? Probably nothing, especially since the DNS moves will be conducted late at night. However, there's a chance you may see a bit of a hiccup, since there's a lot of DNS changes that'll be coming through the worldwide network. So, just a heads-up, sites may be temporarily unreachable; if this occurs, it's only a temporary glitch.

As it stands, all Lupinia-owned domains will be moved to the new registrar/DNS provider in the next week or two, with the exception of domains with .eu, .uk, and .mobi TLDs. The former two can't be transferred to the new registrar without letting them drop (a risky proposition), and any .mobi addresses will stay where they are until their renewal dates, since .mobi domains are ridiculously expensive to transfer for some reason. Thankfully, there aren't many that fit those categories.

This also applies to anyone with a domain that was purchased by Lupinia on your behalf, but anyone who fits into that category has been contacted privately by now.

While applying a security update, some of Lupinia's services were unexpectedly interrupted. The interruption is not complete, some services are still working, but websites are currently unresponsive. This outage shouldn't last much longer, and I apologize for the problem, this patch wasn't expected to affect services this way. Email (POP3/SMTP) and some administrative services are known to still be functioning. Websites and FTP are currently non-responsive.

EDIT: We're back! Sorry for that, there will be an advance announcement next time.

UPDATE: The server is now available. It was down due to an unplanned restart. The issue has been corrected.

UPDATE: Things seem to be stable now.

The server is currently being DOSed, and there's nothing I can do except wait it out. It'll be back up as soon as possible.

UPDATE: Everything is now back to normal.

We need to perform an extensive upgrade and maintenance operation on the Furry Teens forum, so it will be down temporarily. We expect this downtime to last less than one hour.

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All systems are functioning normally.

All services and systems are functioning normally.