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Reports temporarily disabled; Database maintenance tonight – Mar 26 7-10pm PST 27 Mar 2012 | 04:12 am
You may have noticed increasing slowness with running reports. To help improve response times reporting is temporarily being disabled until database maintenance can be run later on this evening. Repor...
Unplanned Outage (Jan 12, 2012) 13 Jan 2012 | 09:28 am
We ran into some server issues that took the site offline for over an hour. We were alerted and fixed the root issue (disk failure). We don’t expect any further issues nor was there any data loss. Tha...
Database maintenance this evening (July 1, 2011) 2 Jul 2011 | 03:24 am
You’ve probably noticed the service slowing down significantly in the last few days. That’s PostgreSQL’s way of saying it needs to be reloaded (don’t get me started on it). We’re going to be taking d...
Database maintenance this evening (Feb 1, 2011) 2 Feb 2011 | 08:39 am
We’re going to be taking down the site for roughly an hour this evening (from 6-8pm PST). As always be sure to keep your timers open and everything will be saved when the site comes back online. Thank...
New rounding options for reports. 22 Nov 2010 | 01:01 pm
By popular request we’ve improved your rounding options for reports. You now can specify if you want to round only the totals (how things were rounded previously) or whether each individual time entr...
API Change 7 Sep 2010 | 08:59 pm
One of the things we’ve noticed during the server move is people making API calls to retrieve *very* large sets of Time Entries. This is causing usage spikes that are adversly affecting the overall re...
Planned Outage (Sept 6 17:00-23:00 PST) 6 Sep 2010 | 05:29 am
We’re going to take advantage of the historically low traffic on this the Sunday before Labor Day (in the US) to move our hosting infrastructure to a new provider. It shouldn’t take 7 hours but just w...
Unplanned Outage 22 May 2009 | 06:31 pm
Our host (EngineYard) is having major issues with the cluster we’re on (ey05): http://engineyard.wordpress.com/ We’re following up and hope to hear something positive soon.
Improved performance and premium subscriptions for your whole team 6 Jan 2009 | 04:38 pm
Just wanted to make a note that our move to our new server cluster was successful and has improved performance dramatically. We’re very pleased with our new solution stack of EngineYard (managed hosti...
Server Downtime this Sunday 3 Jan 2009 | 01:27 pm
Happy New Year! To celebrate we’re moving SlimTimer over to EngineYard which should help with a lot of the performance issues that have been cropping up lately. We’ll try to make the switch as painles...
