openmoko.org archive down due to datacenter issues

Unfortunately, since about 11:30 am CEST on MAy 24, openmoko.org is down due to some power outage related issues at Hetzner, the hosting company at which openmoko.org has been hosting for more than a decade now.

The problem seems to have caused quite a lot of fall-out tom many servers (Hetzner is hosting some 200k machines, not sure how many affected, though), and Hetzner is anything but verbose when it comes to actually explaining what the issue is.

All they have published is https://www.hetzner-status.de/en.html#8842 - which is rather tight lipped about some power grid issues. But then, what do you have UPSs for if not for "a strong voltage reduction in the local power grid"?

The openmoko.org archive machine is running in Hetzner DC10, by the way. This is where they've had the largest number of tickets.

In any case, we'll have to wait for them to resolve their tickets. They appear to be working day and night on that.

I have a number of machines hosted at Hetzner, and I'm actually rather happy that none of the more important systems were affected that long. Some machines simply lost their uplink connectivity for some minutes, while some others were rebooted (power outage). The openmoko.org archive is the only machine that didn't automatically boot after the outage, maybe the power supply needs replacement.

In any case, I hope the service will be back up again soon.

btw: Guess who's been paying for hosting costs ever since Openmoko, Inc. has shut down? Yes, yours truly. It was OK for something like 9 years, but I want to recursively pull the dynamic content through some cache, which can then be made permanent. The resulting static archive can then be moved to some VM somewhere, without requiring a dedicated root server. That should reduce the costs down to almost nothing.