The Digital Empire and all network sites are back up, albeit without being fully tested yet.
Security is in place, monitoring is being set up, and all sites are being tested as time permits.
Please let us know if you notice anything amiss throughout the DE Network.
We sincerely apologize for yet another long stretch of downtime. Funding is nil at the moment, and we have no redundant web server in case of emergencies. As it is, we had to wait for our old server to be shipped to a different facility so that our existing data could be made available. Unfortunately we could not make it work on the server it was moved to (OpenVZ, the technology we previously moved away from), and as a result had to find a new provider and transfer all of our data there instead.
We’re back up, we’re Xen-powered, and we’re hard at work on our server technology here at DE, two concurrent projects at Fallout Games, several open source .NET tools and libraries at SingularityShift, our debut sci-fi novel at digiPress, and some new electronic music from [broken] at Shattered Audio.
Don’t forget to bookmark Technology Kills, Ben McClure‘s blog.
Stay tuned for future updates around the DE Network, as well as a new Digital Empire site to tie them all together.
We have completed a major network revamp and move to several new providers for our servers. You should see no ill effects due to the switch-over, and we are seeing a lot better performance on the new network.
Additionally, if anyone was experiencing DNS resolution issues (which we were ourselves at times), this move has completely resolved that. We now have multiple separate physical nameservers at multiple providers.
In addition, the Shattered Audio blog, Fallout Games blog, and digiPress blog have all been stood up. Expect more network sites to pop up over the coming days.
Our new service, DE Domains, is under construction, and will soon be offering great domain names for excellent prices — many of these are domains we purchased for services we never decided to finish, so now we’re offering them back to the community.
