io.com is down

has been for over 12 hours now, taking out my email, my personal website, celticdistrict.com, and (tragically) any of the comics i've posted in the last 5 months, so there may be "timeouts" and empty images if any of my comics are recent enough to still be on your friends lists.

partial email is back, that's it

i feel like the enterprise in ST2 after the first fight: "We have partial main power. Full restoration of main power will take 6 days. Auxiliary power is down. Expect restoration in 2 days. By the Book."

its not quite that bad, but with the www.io.com website down, there's no way to give proper feedback to the user community as to what's wrong and how long it will take to fix.

I can read email. I can't reply if my SMTP server is set to io.com's server. Spam is not being filtered. I can only read my Inbox folder, none of my other IMap folders. I can't ssh login. I can't ftp. I can't view my pages on either io.com/~acroyear or celticdistrict.com. About the only other thing that works is the mysql database, which is housed on a separate machine from most of the user systems.

and as i said, the NOC's "status report" is part of the main web server, which is down. So they can't tell us what's wrong via the web, and they can't email us from within, and from without they can't get the customer list in order to do said email from another system.

something blew up, big time. this is a first on this scale for me since I first joined them in 1995.

a little better...

other daemons are working, including www and ssh, so i can see that my directory is ok and my web pages are fine. celticdistrict.com is working again. not sure if i can email out yet. IMAP is still configured to only give me my Inbox, so i can't see all my folders, but i can see that they do still exist in my login shell.

the NOC status page hasn't been updated to tell us what the hell happened yet.

I have HEARD the WORD! And the word is DAEMON...FINALLY

Reboot season 4 (Daemon Rising and My Two Bobs) is finally out on DVD, so I can FINALLY see the ending of the two films (cable went out on some of the broadcast dates, and Cartoon Network NEVER rebroadcast them, the jerks).

HOWEVER, for some reason, they did a poor time handling on the release. Its *slow*. Everybody's voice is about a whole step lower (musically speaking) than it should be. Still, at least i'll finally (after 3 years) know what happens.

Still, also, it was CHEAP! even less than 99.99.99!