Sorry for the inconvenience, but there will be some more downtime on the main server (that hosts a, b, c, d, & g.imagehost.org) as the main drive (on which the OS resides) needs to be replaced. For this reason unfortunately the server will be offline for several hours while backups are made, the drive is replaced, the OS reinstalled & reconfigured.

Uploads and recently uploaded images (which are stored on f.imagehost.org) should be unaffected and continue to work as normal.

Update: the server OS was reinstalled, but it was the wrong version (as the server has loads of RAM, installing a 32-bit OS doesn’t make sense). Unfortunately this is going to delay things some further.

Update 2: Done! While there are still lots of little things (mostly cron jobs) left to set up, the server is hosting files again! Actually once the server came back online (hours ago) I had already hacked up a quick fix to have the other (working) server host the affected files, but this kind of overloaded that server a lot. I figured it was better to have the images load slowly than not at all. But from this moment on speeds should improve as the original server is now taking over the job again.

Unfortunately at the moment the other server (not the same one as yesterday) is currently down. I was doing some small software upgrades, including a kernel upgrade which required a reboot. Unfortunately the server is currently stuck doing “fsck” (Linux equivalent of Scan Disk or chkdsk) and it looks like it may take a bit longer before it’s done. Again I apologize for the inconvenience.

Update: unfortunately it looks like the system drive of the server will need to be replaced. This means even more down time unfortunately, as it’s going to take some time to get the OS reconfigured again after my provider reinstalls it. No data should be lost however as the drive isn’t completely gone (plus there are backups on other servers). In the mean while I’m going to try to get the main site back online first, using the server that is currently working.

Update 2: seems like when my provider mentioned a reinstall was necessary, they didn’t meant it needed to be done right away and that the system wasn’t booting – it is. So for a short while all of ImageHost.org should be online (pretty much) until the drive will be replaced in a few hours (after which a, b, c, d & g.imagehost.org will be temporary offline until the OS is reconfigured).

The second ImageHost.org server, which hosts e.imagehost.org and f.imagehost.org was down for most of the day unfortunately. Part of the reason it took so long was because I didn’t notice until in the afternoon, and another reason is that it took some time to fix: it appears the network card had died. Anyway, the server is now back up. I apologize for the inconvinience.