We are currently working to get the service up and running but we do not know what is causing the problems. Will post new information as soon as the service is working again.
Author: Stian B. Barmen
Changes to Transports
For a few years we have been offering free MSN, AIM, ICQ and somewhat Yahoo tranports to alle Jabber / XMPP users. In an effort to better the service for our jabber.no users we now need to bloc external users from utilizing our transports as the traffic for these transports are straining our servers.
For this reason we will block out all external users from the transport this week. Sorry for this.
Upgraded to Ejabber 2.0.0
Now I have upgraded the Jabber / XMPP server to ejabberd 2.0.0 which was released only a few days ago. I have been waiting for this release a long time, and been wondering about running one of the test versions but was able to wait until release.
Now I am wondering if this upgrade will fix our problems with the MSN transport which has been making trouble a while. I have also set up Proxy65 and upgraded the MSN transport to PyMSNt 0.11.3 which is fairly new aswell.
Loads of new stuff at one time, now only time will show if everything works stable and smooth.
Sorry for the downtime tonight while I was upgrading the server, I needed to do some manual tuning to make the install on our server. 🙂
Ejabberd 2.0.0
Finally we have the ejabberd 2.0.0 version released after 1,5 years in development. Since we have some issues with packet shaping and the transports I will try to upgrade to this version as soon as possible. Hopefully this weekend.
Read more about the new version in the release announcement here: ejabberd 2.0.0.
Yahoo transport
Lately the Yahoo transport has not been working. The other day I decided to try and empty the user database to see if the database itself was the cause of the problems, and since the service has been running smoothly. This means that you will need to re-register the transport if you are a registrered user. Just delete it and reconecct and register.
Hope for better Yahoo times 🙂
Updated status
The last few months lots have happened in my life, and at the same time not so much on the Jabber server. Luckily we now run our service on a much better hardware platform at Interhost. My personal situation has been about work lately, and I have now decided to quit my job with IT-Akademiet and will from January work for Skill. The process is now alomost complete, so I hope to get my head out of this haze. 🙂
On other news we have now about 4275 registered users, 150-160 concurrent users and about 3-400 very active users (online every other day or more often).
I was wondering about cleaning the user database. Maybe run a script that deletes users with no activity the last 12 months. Is this to strict a policy? Please provide feedback! 🙂 The first step is of course cleaning out the users which never have logged on.
Contact form problems
We have had some issues with the contact form lately and we are not able to see your e-mail addresses and we are therefore unable to answer you. Please ask again in the comments section of this posting if you are missing an answer to a question.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Scheduled downtime
We have to bring down our servers to do some software upgrades. Downtime estimated at a couple of hours.
Sorry for the inconvinience.
Yahoo works again
We have had some issues with Yahoo the last days, now it works again. Thanks to the developer for helping me figuring out the problem.
Facebook perhaps?
I have lately myself been tricked into Facebook and I just sat here thinking maybe a Facebook group could be a great way to create some kind of community for our (over 3800!) registered users. At least I created the group so we will see if this will work in any way.
Please join us at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2343982619
Hope you will join us and give credit / critics and come with good ideas.