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The @ icon will appear at the top right corner of your shoutbox when there are important announcements.
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September 9, 2009
Website Lock feature is now available to all shoutboxes. You can now use it to stop spam more effectively. Simply update your shoutbox via Website Lock page in the control panel to start using it.September 4, 2009
Server 5 and 6 maintenance is complete.June 13, 2009
Server 6 has just been added to our network to serve even more shoutboxes.April 3, 2009
Server 2 is online. Investigations showed that the server had a problem with the power supply and it was probably linked to the mainboard issue earlier. The power supply was slowly starting to fail causing the server to randomly reboot and not coming back up. It has been completely replaced now and the server appears to be running stable.A swap to a completely new server has been considered to fix the down time issue. However, a swap will cost even more down time so the current decision is to stay on the current hardware. As hardware failure is completely beyond our control, server stability and uptime will be improved via other redundancy methods in the future.
April 3, 2009
Server 2 is currently down.March 28, 2009
Connectivity to server 2 has been restored. Investigation shown that the mainboard malfunctioned. It has been replaced and the server is operational normally again.March 28, 2009
The connectivity to server 2 is currently unavailable. We are working on getting the server back online at the moment.August 29, 2008
The free shoutbox now has both IP and URL banning features!April 13, 2008
In a moment at 3:00am CDT there will be an upgrade maintenance on the router our servers are connected through. During this time, the existing supervisor engines (SUP720-3BXL) will be swapped with new Cisco best of breed supervisor engines (VS-S720-10G-3CXL). As this router provides direction connectivities to our servers, public internet connectivity will be unavailable at various points during the above maintenance window. The upgrade for the supervisor engines is expected to take approximately 15 minutes.Update: Maintenance is complete in less than 15 minutes. Everything is running smoothly again after the router upgrade.