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Server Outage Resolved

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The community members experienced a brief server outage this morning, which has now been resolved. The issue was caused by a database failure, likely due to hardware failure. After the database came back online, there were some additional issues, but the community members have since resolved them. To prevent this from happening again, they have implemented a redundancy plan using "read-replica" databases, so that if the primary database fails, the application will still function. The community members have apologized for the inconvenience caused by the downtime.

Hey everyone - as you may have or may not have noticed our servers were down briefly this morning. The problem appears to be resolved now. I'll share more details here once I have them. Thank you for your patience and apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused!

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Hello Community!
As promised, we've done a bit of investigating into the issue that happened.

Essentially a database failed for unknown reasons. - most likely a hardware failure. It was a compounding issue after that when the database did come back online some issues were caused by the outage itself.

We've since resolved those issues and we have put in contingencies to prevent this from happening again in the future with "read-replica" databases - essentially a redundancy plan - so that if the primary database fails, the app will still function.

Sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this downtime has caused - we know first hand, how important these tools are to your workflow.

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