[2:37pm EDT] The Commons is currently down, due to a broken database connection. Our technical team is looking into it.
[2:52pm EDT] UPDATE: The site is back up. We’re investigating the root cause.
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March 3 – Performance issues
[2016-03-03 6:00pm] The Commons is currently experiencing intermittent performance issues. The team is investigating. Please watch this space for updates.
Commons downtime
[10:15pm EST] The Commons is currently unavailable while we investigate some abnormal behavior.
[Update 10:37pm EST] The site is available again. The problem appears to be related to a corrupted object cache, which was resolved with a hard flush of Memcached.
Maintenance downtime
The Commons will be offline for a few minutes for maintenance related to recent performance issues.
[4:35pm] The site is back online. We’ve put an emergency caching layer in front of one of the sources of the issues, and site resources are stabilizing.
Response time issues
The Commons is experiencing some slow response times this afternoon. The team is continuing to investigate.
Outages and slowness
The Commons is currently undergoing some performance issues. The site will be shut down for a few minutes as we investigate the problem.
[04:02 EST] The site has been reopened. We will continue to monitor the situation.
Commons Downtime 11/13/2016
The Commons is currently down. We are aware of the issue and working with our hosting service providers to get the site back up. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please follow this blog for updates.
Update (12:45pm): The Commons is back up. We are investigating the cause of the downtime.
Commons Downtime 11/12/16
The Commons experienced server downtime on November 12, 2016 from approximately 3pm-3:50pm. Our team is currently working with our server hosts to determine the cause of the outage.
We apologize for the downtime and thank you for your patience. The site is currently functioning normally.
Commons 1.10 release
The 1.10 release of the CUNY Academic Commons will take place on the morning of November 7, 2016. The update will require 2-3 minutes of downtime, sometime around 10:15am EST. This post will be updated when the downtime is complete.
[2016-11-07 10:29am] The downtime is now complete. Thanks for your patience.
Oct 24, 2016 – Slow response times
[9:19pm] Response times on commons.gc.cuny.edu and related sites are currently very slow. The team is investigating.
[9:58pm] The Commons should now be responding normally. The outages were due to networkwide issues at the Graduate Center, which have been cleared up.
