Ever since the server move, the payment system has been causing problems for people who are trying to buy credits. The payment would be taken but the system didnt automatically add the credits to the users account.

I was notified of this and manually added the credits to the user (and a bit more as a way of apology). I then took the payment system down to debug the error and I can happily say that I have now fixed the bug and the payment system is back online!

Between 9pm and 10.30pm CST, AcornRack was unavailable, this was due to a DNS failure. AcornRack was restored by rerouting the DNS traffic to another location.

DNS outages are always a pain as they have a knock on effect (http://www.acornrack.com/forum/forum-thread-846125-11076-1217246051.html). The cause for the knock on effect is because your ISP can cache the site when it is down and so the downtime can seem longer than it actually is.

I have been monitoring the servers for 12 hours (need sleep….*yawn*) and everything is back working as it should be.

A couple of people have noticed a few bugs which have cropped up recently, since the server move, and I will be seeing to them as soon as possible. In the meantime if you find any bugs, please submit them to the bugs forum.

Hello,

To coincide with the server move, the blog has been recreated. This is mainly because AR2 is powering through development and we will need feedback from the AcornRack users about features and designs.

I know that the last blog wasn’t used as often and was only updated every couple of months (at best!), but this blog will be one of the main methods of passing relevant information about AR1, AR2 and Centation as a whole.

Just as a tease, we expect to have something to begin testing with as early as next week, so stay tuned.