Archive for the 'Maintenance' Category

Maintenance taking place today

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

We’ll be performing maintenance on several of our servers today as we roll out new changes that will make the site run smoother and to ensure we avoid any hiccups in the future. Some users’ files will be temporarily unavailable during this time, but we’ll be keeping that to an absolute minimum. Furthermore, all premium users will enjoy uninterrupted service, as this maintenance will not effect those files. As always, please drop us a line at our support email with any questions, and we apologize for any inconvenience.

Scheduled Maintenance: June 29 - July 3

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

We are planning some maintenance on a number of our storage servers for Sunday, June 29 through Tuesday, July 1, which will cause intermittent downtime for some DivShare files. We’ll keep this as brief as possible and let you know specific downtime schedules as we have them. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for being a part of DivShare.

Update: Some files will be unavailable through the afternoon of July 3 — sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience so far.

Important Security Announcement

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Dear DivShare members,

Late last night we were alerted of a security breach that allowed a malicious user to access our database, which included user e-mail addresses and other basic profile information. No financial information has been accessed by any unauthorized parties. We have taken extreme measures to secure the site in the last 12 hours and are currently in the process of rolling out new security precautions, which is why many files are currently unavailable. We apologize for this inconvenience and for the oversights that allowed this security breach to take place. We take the security of all data and files very seriously and are embarrassed and regretful that an intrusion was allowed to take place on our watch.

Please rest assured that no financial information whatsoever has been compromised. While we are not aware of what data has actually been accessed or copied, the database included user e-mail addresses and other data you may have saved to your profile, such as your first name. We are not aware of any files being accessed without permission, but we recommend that you change your account password and the passwords on any private folders as a security precaution.

We can’t apologize enough for allowing this breach to take place. We know how important security is for all our members and their files, and we are taking every precaution available to ensure that this doesn’t happen again. We ask for your patience as we bring all your files back online under the new security system in the coming hours, and we pledge to keep your files and user information under the tightest security possible from here on out.

Please don’t hesitate to contact support with any questions or concerns. Yours,

The DivShare Team

Files are temporarily unavailable - 1 PM ET

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Thanks for using DivShare. We are currently rolling out new security settings, and unfortunately this process will disable access to most files for several hours this afternoon. We apologize for the inconvenience, and will have the site back up and running as soon as possible.

Downtime for database maintenance

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

This afternoon we’re taking our database servers offline for a short time to repair an issue that’s been causing slow load times and timeouts since late last night. We apologize for the inconvenience, and will have everything back online as soon as possible. Thanks for using DivShare!

Network outage resolved

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Update: All set!

We’re experiencing some problems with part of the network at our datacenter, which is causing the site to load slowly (or time out) for some users. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working on resolving the problem — we’ll have everything back to normal as soon as possible.

Brief downtime for database maintenance

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Update: Maintenance complete!

The site will be offline for a few minutes during the 5 p.m. ET hour as we do some maintenance on one of our database servers. We are expecting no more than 30 minutes of downtime, and perhaps significantly less. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for being a part of DivShare.

s06 server is temporarily unavailable

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Update: All set!

We’ve had to take the s06 server (which may also appear as s04.divshare.com when accessing files) offline temporarily to resolve a network connection issue. We apologize for the inconvenience and will have the server online again as soon as possible.

Upload errors now resolved

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

This morning a number of users may have run into an error during uploading, such as “error accessing query string file,” due to a configuration error on our side. We’ve now fixed this problem, so you should be able to upload successfully again. Sorry for this inconvenience.

Maintenance on s06

Friday, February 8th, 2008

We’re working on some overnight maintenance on the s06 server, so the files hosted there will be offline tonight. We expect to have everything back online early Friday morning. We’re very sorry for the inconvenience.