SquidgeWorld Status
The SquidgeWorld Archive came back up successfully a few hours ago – but I was too focused and enraged on what’s going on in the world instead of sending out an “up” notice like I normally do. So my apologies if anyone was waiting for me. Basically, it was my own fault. I changed a […]
Read MoreSquidgeWorld – Down
SquidgeWorld is down at the moment. Disk issue – but this isn’t a bad one now that we know what’s going on. We’ll be fixing some stuff, moving our backups to another partition, and then restart the archive in the next couple of hours. We should be up by about 12Noon Pacific at the latest.
Read MoreSquidgeWorld Maintenance Take 2
I think we’ve finally uncovered the last issue ::knock wood:: First off, a couple of months back, some of the internal components of SquidgeWorld failed, and we had to move the drives and RAM to a new piece of hardware. That hardware, while slower, was working fine until the internal disk drive became corrupted – […]
Read MoreSquidgeWorld – Back Up
As of right now, 11:53am on Tuesday, December 30th, 2025 SquidgeWorld Archive is back up and running! If you see any oddities, please don’t hesitate to let us know. For transparency, here’s basically what happened: The server had a hard disk corruption that had to be corrected Corrections were made, but there was an internal […]
Read MoreSquidgeWorld Down
Currently, SquidgeWorld.org is down due to disk corruption. We’re running some processes to clean up the corruption. Hope to have things up and running within the next couple of hours.
Read MoreSquidgeWorld Maintenance – Unexpected Downtime
We’re having an unexpected issue with our SquidgeWorld machine, and are actively working the issue. We hope to be back up asap. No current ETA.
Read MoreUnderage/RPF Clarification
We’ve had a huge influx of people to SquidgeWorld in the last week or so, and it seems to come down to an incident at AO3 with underage fics. This email is to respond to the half a dozen emails/trouble tickets that we’ve gotten asking us to clarify our stance on the issue. Even though […]
Read MoreSquidgeWorld Archive – Coming Back Up!
The SquidgeWorld Archive should be up before 3pm Pacific Time today, which means a total downtime of about 30 hours. You should know, however, that while we were able to bring up the server on new hardware, that hardware is underpowered. Not as much RAM as the old server, and the processor isn’t as fast. […]
Read MoreSquidgeWorld Downtime – An Update
So we had an equipment failure for The SquidgeWorld Archive that makes the current machine unusable. We’re weighing options, but there will be no update available for the immediate future. We will be back up, but it’s going to depend on a few things. First of all, we just ordered the necessary equipment as a […]
Read MoreSquidgeWorld Unplanned Downtime
The SquidgeWorld Archive is currently offline due to a hardware issue. We hope to be back up asap.
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