Hei, vi jobber med en fiks for nedetiden som er akkurat nå. Er ikke lenge før tjenesten er tilbake.

I have been trying to migrate authentication to the WordPress user database as source. This already works in my test setup and I will do some trial of migration of users accounts before we try to implement this on the live server. The upside with having accounts in WordPress is that we have the opportunity to establish a forum and community in a much smoother way. Then all users could help each other more than today, and user guides and inputs will be more “alive”. The goal with the change are different, one part is the collaboration part, the second part is to get a more robust user registration and password reset system through the wordpress framework.

There are also some downsides, for instance that the profile in WordPress and Ejabberd are not synchronized. This means that changing your Name or other profile settings in WordPress will not be updated in the Jabber profile and vice versa. To get that to work we need to greate a sync of the profiles and that is currently not in scope, though very feasable since they both use the same MySQL DB backend server.

I will update when I know more, so still we have a situation where we only use manual registrations. 🙂

Hello all, sadly we have been attacked with spammers and we therefor need to disable registration of new users to the server. This will be enabled again as soon as needed mitigations are implemented.

Also we need to delete the accounts registrered the last days as most/all of these are owned by not wanted users. Sorry about this.

Just upgraded to Ejabberd version 2.1.10, no new functionality just bug fixes. Also I upgraded our SSL certificate to Class 2 from Startcom giving us a higher verification class. In practise not a big change but it means the server and service has a better verification and there is more reason to trust the validity of the server.

The transports are not back due to problems geting the new Spectrum service to work stable. I am still doing testing of these from time to time and will introduce them again when the service is stable enough. In the interim I would suggest using multiple clients or a multiprotocol one like Pidgin or Digsby and similar. Other suggestions? Leave them in the comments. 🙂

We are now moving the service to a new server based on Gentoo and upgraded version of Ejabberd to version 2.1.8. There will be a bit of downtime but no more than a couple of hours max. Estimated finish aprox 14:00 CET.

Hello all, we are very sorry about the instability lately. We are by now on an unsupported Ubuntu version and we will need to migrate onto a new server install to remedy the problems. Currently we are looking for a solution to this and are asking for your patience while we sort this out. Very sorry about this!

We have now migrated the databases over to MySQL databases from Ejabberds mnesia due to size issues causing instability. We have seen some few collation issues on the roster but that should be ok, just set the name again to mitigate. Let us hope this means more stable services 🙂

We have found the root cause of the instability issues with Ejabberd, basically our database is too big for the internal databases and we need to export to SQL based database.

Currently we are trying to do this migration but not without issues. Will update status later.