TDC Song which is the hosting centre this server is placed in had downtime on the routing today because of a router upgrade that went terribly wrong. This resulted in downtime all of today since last night.
Very sorry about trouble because of this.
Spectrum Transports
Some of you might have noticed that we have some new transports in the service discovery list. These will be unstable and is not reccomended for daily use yet. We have just tested the Facebook transport briefly (seems to work ok), but rumors say that the others should also work fine.
For more information please see www.spectrum.im.
Upgrades coming soon
We are planning to upgrade our server with a newer version of Ubuntu, new version of ejabberd and set up a test for transports from Spectrum. Obviously we will need to have some dowtime for these changes, and the longest of these will be when we upgrade the server OS.
The hopes are that this will create more, faster and stable services for you. Pending successful tests we can provision more transport to other networks supported (in varying degree) by Spectrum, like for instance ICQ, AIM, MSN, Facebook, Twitter, Gadu-Gadu, og SIMPLE. IRC is supported directly by ejabberd, but maybe we should look at the functionality and performance on the Spectrum implementation. The best upside is that the Spectrum transport implementation should be much less resource demanding than the Python based transports we are running on now.
More information will come when we get closer to the changes, some more preparations will need to be done first.
Yahoo transport test
I have just added the latest CVS version of the Yahoo transport and it seems to be working from my initial tests. Please have a look at it and report findings. To make it work I removed all the old registrations on it, so you woul have to re-register the transport on your account.
This is a little beta, so no guarantees! 😀
ICQ Transport coming back
We have now downloaded and installed the latest version of the ICQ transport. Please test and report back if it works.
The reason we have not had the transport running has been a problem with the packaged version and the new version of Python on the new server we migrated to. For troubles because of this we are very sorry.
On a side note, we are also testing the new version of ejabberd and plan to do an upgrade very soon.
Jabber up again
Finally we found the error and now the service is running again. Since we changed server there might be some small issues still, like the transports that will come soon.
Thank you for your patience.
Service is down
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.
Updates to the Service
As the Ubuntu version we are running has expired on support we need to upgrade. Last time weÃÂ upgraded we had lost of problems so we will install a new installation and reconfigure all services and do a switchover. When the new server is ready we will announce the switch.
We have also been updating the web page to make it more current, and plus the new version of WordPress has excellent plugins for multilanuage content which I have installed. During this phase some web services might not work.
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. 🙂