Notable Outages

January 2012

On January 9th at approximately 5pm SLT, the Tiny Empires servers for both versions stopped processing. First Notification:

Greetings all, 
The Tiny Empires 3000 game server is down for some unexpected maintenance. 
I'm told the very best technicians are working on it as we speak, and 
I hope  the game will be back up soon.
I will keep you updated as I hear more.
-- Ultralite Soleil

The servers remained down overnight. The following morning (January 10th), the Chancellor posted this:

Greetings all,
There is bad news and good news. Which shall I give first? <rolls dice>...
The bad news is that there has apparently been a catastrophic failure of 
some kind in the Tiny Empires 3000 servers and they will have to be rebuilt, 
which could take the rest of the day. 
The good news is that I managed to grab a good backup before the failure, 
so nothing in the Tiny Empires games will be lost. Your ships and credits are safe. 
I will update you more as I learn more.  
Ultralite Soleil

Later that day, approximately 6:45pm, notice was given in the Tiny Empires group (but not the Tiny Empires 3000 group):

Thanks to some very poor response times from the company hosting the TE 
servers, I am still not in a situation where I can get on there and restore 
the database backup and get you all playing again. 
Now it is looking like the game won't be running again until tomorrow. I 
am very sorry for the long delay. This is the worst downtime for TE in years.
More information as I learn it...
Ultralite

The next day (January 11th) at 2:11pm, the following was sent to some Tiny Empires groups:

Ultralite Soleil: I'm sorry for the very long downtime. I hope to have the server up within a few hours, but I cannot promise it.
Ultralite Soleil: Thank you all for your patience. I'm heading back into server configuration mode. See you soon I hope.

(Servers are still down as of this writing)