::The Chilp blog::

Dear all,

http://chilp.it and http://chilp.me are currently down,
there seems to be a problem at the DC. We are currently looking into it.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
We will update you as soon as we have further information.

Update: Feel free to take a look at http://uptime.chilp.net
Update II: The services are back. We are still waiting for the final RCA.
Update III: The services are down again. The DC folks are investigating.
Update IV: The disks (!) of an important server are failing and need to be replaced. This might take a while.
Update V: http://chilp.it will remain read only until further notice. New short URLs can’t be created. Existing redirects will keep working.
Update: VI: The services are back. This happened: 2 HHDs and a CMOS battery needed to be changed. Since the Raid was broken it needed to be rebuilt too which took some time. :-)

Feel free to get back to us in case you have any questions.

Cheers,
Zalt

Dear all,

we wish you all the best.
Joyeux Noël – Frohe Weihnachten – Merry Christmas!

:-)

Cheers,
Zalt

Dear all,

http://chilp.it and http://chilp.me are currently down,
there seems to be a problem at the DC. We are looking into it.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

Update: Why not take a look at http://uptime.chilp.net while waiting?
Update II: We are back up, the problem has been taken care of. The power supply of the main server needed to be changed.

Feel free to contact me to get a more detailed update and probably a beer too.

Cheers,
Zalt

Dear all,

please send Chilp.it URL removal requests including a good reason to the address found here.
We will respond in a timely fashion.

Related: Fighting spam, even better!

You’re welcome. :-)

Cheers,
Zalt

Dear all,

http://chilp.it and http://chilp.me are currently down, we are looking into it.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

Update: Feel free to take a look at http://uptime.chilp.net
Update II: We are setting up a read-only server to start serving redirects again. Hanging in there.
Update III: Our provider confirms a power cut and is working on it: “The room was cut! We are on the site to reboot the room.”
Update IV:  We are still experiencing problems with the server config and are trying to resolve it.
Update V: Services are coming back to life. Thanks a lot for your patience.

Final update: All services have been restored. No short URL’s have been harmed in the procedure.

Feel free to contact me to get a more detailed update and probably a beer too.

Cheers,
Zalt

Joyeux Noël – Frohe Weihnachten – Merry Christmas!

:-)

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Dear all,

our happy sites http://chilp.it and http://chilp.me are currently down and, to be honest, it’s my fault.
Well, I moved a couple of OTHER domains from one hosting company to another today and I “accidently” changed the A record of those two sites, too.

I already reverted the changes but it might take some time to propagate to your favorite DNS server since the TTL was set to 10800 seconds at that time.

I am very sorry for the trouble.

Update: Traffic is coming back. Happy shortening!

Cheers,
Zalt

Dear all,

we were experiencing a high traffic situation over the last few days which is slowing down today. It all started when ~50 seemingly random URLs mostly registered at Free Domain Hosters were shortened through our our happy URL shortener http://chilp.it last weekend.

Since all of this domains where shortened within a short amount of time and were sporting the distinctive pattern “/s.php” we found out about it and blocked those probably malicious URLs.

We most likely wouldn’t have given those blocked URLs a second thought but they received so much clicks our traffic load tripled over the last couple of days. Although we don’t know the nature of the attack we like to warn you about it and decided to publish those URLs here. Feel free to contact us if you got any questions.

Stay safe,
Cheers,
Zalt

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