News
- 2023-07-23 - Brief website and paralysis downtime
The server that hosts the Darkmyst website and the paralysis IRC server was down intermittently between 00:45 UTC and 01:35 UTC for some emergency maintenance scheduled by its host...
- 2022-08-21 - Postmortem for recent downtime (2nd of August) published
The postmortem of the recent notable services downtime is now available for public viewing...
- 2022-08-02 - Services outage (again)
Good things come in pairs? The same server host had an unrelated issue in the same datacentre today...
- 2022-08-01 - Services outage
One of our server hosts had some network issues today...
- 2021-09-30 - [Heads-up] Certificate authority root expiry
If you are having recent issues with the Darkmyst server certificates, chances are your problem is with Let's Encrypt's cross-signing root certificate expiring today. Darkmyst's certificates are not reliant on this root certificate, but this allowed devices that only know the old root certificate to verify the certificate validity until the expiration date - it's these devices which are now having problems...
- 2021-09-28 - The EU Servers are dead, long live the EU Servers
Trivia: Most of Darkmyst's European servers were hosted by one friendly staff member, dgram. That same friendly staff member has been diligently working toward a spring cleaning of their server infrastructure in general...
- 2021-03-31 - Postmortem for recent downtime (25th of March) published
The postmortem of the recent prolonged services downtime is now available for public viewing...
- 2021-03-25 - Network Services Downtime
There was a prolonged (approximately twelve hour) services downtime today. As much as I'd love to be able to offer up a wild technical explanation for what went wrong, the truth is unfortunately simple: At its root, this was failed communication within the Darkmyst staff team...
- 2021-01-01 - Here's to 2021
A more sombre message from me this time compared to last year I feel...
- 2020-01-06 - paralysis misconfiguration and crash
Appromixately around 14:20 UTC today, Dread managed to accidentally nuke vis server (paralysis). The underlying cause was a recent change to the server-side configuration that ended up being incompatible with some other processes on the same server, which proceeded to pile up until everything blew up spectacularly. Apologies for the preventable outage! The offending processes have been fixed to deal with the configuration changes; this particular catastrophe will not happen again. Sod's Law promises it'll be entertainingly different next time...
- 2019-12-31 - Happy New Year!
Another year gone, another decade over. As we look forward to the start of the Roaring Twenties (I do just get to reuse the previous centuries nicknames, right?) I just wanted to take a moment to reflect on a few of the things that have happened in 2019 for DarkMyst...
- 2019-10-21 - Network Maintanence (22-24 Oct)
Happy Halloween everyone! While I'm sure y'all are preparing to gorge out on all the candy you can get, the admin team is preparing for upstream maintanence this week...
- 2019-09-16 - Emergency maintenance: nebula
Our services host (nebula.uk.eu.darkmyst.org) went down today due to a short-notice (~1 minute advance warning) emergency maintenance from the datacenter provider. We apologise for the inconvenience caused!
- 2019-08-29 - 27-28 August Domain Outage
The end of the month just seems to be jinxed for us. We had a minor issue with one of our domain registrars, which lead to RPG-Hub.com going down...
- 2019-08-12 - New website!
Thank you to Dread for the countless hours spent creating our new website. Hopefully you will all find it useful, and please remember to send her your thanks!
- 2019-08-11 - The website is dead, long live the website
DarkMyst's old website design dated back to 2005. Back in 2005, table layouts were not a great idea, but you could get away with them. We were very happy with the design, but regrettably, table-layout websites tend to get very upset if you try to visit them with a mobile device...
- 2019-06-28 - 26th and 27th June 2019 Outages
One of our server hosters' scheduled maintenances went wrong, stranding us without services...
- 2019-06-17 - Vecna taking on Network Coordinator role
Trading liches for minions, Vecna has taken up the Network Coordinator role of DarkMyst...