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We will be upgrading our storage systems starting at 5 PM Pacific (8 PM Eastern) on Friday, October 25 (12 AM GMT on Saturday, October 26). The upgrade process will last approximately one week.  While the upgrade process will not affect the performance of wiki pages, it will affect file downloads.  When you attempt toContinue reading “Planned Maintenance: Storage upgrades starting 5 PM Pacific, Friday October 25”

Starting at 10 PM Pacific on October 10 (1 AM Eastern / 6 AM GMT / 7 AM BST) and continuing until 6 AM Pacific on October 11 (9 AM Eastern / 1 PM GMT / 2 PM BST), PBworks will be performing planned system maintenance.  We don’t expect this to have any impact onContinue reading “Maintenance Notice: October 10/11”

Starting around 12:00 AM Pacific Time on the morning of Saturday, May 21, the PBworks service was down for an extended period of several hours. This is the longest downtime the service has ever experienced. Fortunately, it occurred on a weekend, but it still inconvenienced many of our customers and users. If you were oneContinue reading “May 21 Investigation”

On the evening of Friday, February 5, PBworks will be unavailable for up to six (6) hours while we perform a scheduled infrastructure upgrade, starting at 10:00 PM Pacific Time (1 AM Eastern/6 AM UTC on Saturday, February 6). During this time, the PBworks service will be offline; you won’t be able to log in,Continue reading “Maintenance Window, 10 PM Pacific Time, Friday February 5”

On the evening of Saturday, July 11, PBworks will be unavailable for up to an hour while we perform scheduled hardware maintenance, starting at 9:00 PM Pacific Time (12 AM Eastern/4 AM UTC/5 AM BST on Sunday, July 12). During this time, the PBworks service will be offline; you won’t be able to log in,Continue reading “1-Hour Maintenance Window, 9 PM Pacific Time, Saturday July 11”

You may have heard in the news about the Shellshock bug, which affects Unix and Linux servers: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/technology/security-experts-expect-shellshock-software-bug-to-be-significant.html?_r=0 The good news is that the way PBworks’ systems are set up, the Shellshock bug could not be exploited.  As a precaution, however, we have already applied multiple patches to all of our Linux servers to eliminateContinue reading “PBworks is safe from Shellshock”

As of July 3, 2014, the automated Amazon S3 backup will become a premium feature.  This means that it will be a separate add-on line item in your PBworks paid subscription. Don’t worry, if you are currently using this feature to back up your PBworks network to your corporate S3 account, we will grandfather inContinue reading “Automated Amazon S3 Backup Is Going Premium”

As you may have heard, many websites and services have a major security issue named “Heartbleed” The short answer is that your information is safe, PBworks is not affected, and you do not need to take any actions (e.g. changing passwords). If you are interested in the details, you can read on. A major securityContinue reading “Security Announcement: PBworks is safe from “Heartbleed””

In March 2009, Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer 8.  At the time, the browser was state of the art.  Today, over 4.5 years later, IE8 is looking dated, and the usage numbers reflect it. In the broad market, IE8 now has less than 10% market share, and we see a similar proportion in our own statistics. Continue reading “PBworks Phasing Out IE8 Support Starting 1/31/2014”