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#billingsystem #infosec

Due to an oversight when scheduling maintenance for today, the service will be unavailable for four years.

#leapyear #leapday #maintenance #downtime

We're currently investigating why today's invoices were dated the 0th March.

We ask that any affected customers please pay half the invoice today and half the invoice tomorrow.

#billingsystem #dateparsing #calendar

Due to a recent security breach we now have off-site backups. We’re just not sure which site.

#infosec #backups #devops #data

Our web service downgrade was completed successfully and now supports SOAP requests

#maintenance #api

We treat our servers like cattle, not pets. But that’s led to the Linux equivalent of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and now we have holes in our kernel.

#devops #downtime #linux #cloud

Due to our offsite backup solution involving posting USB keys to ourselves in 2nd class post, it will take two more days before we’re back online.

#outage #backups #offsitebackups #disasterrecovery #downtime #dataloss

Yesterday’s outage was due to a devops problem: chef stopped working and none of the team spoke Swedish

#outage #downtime #devops

We’ve upgraded our software license from GPL2 to GPL3 and now everything is running faster

#maintenance #freesoftware #performance #gpl

Due to a buffer overflow problem our floors will remain unpolished until next month

#infosec #maintenance