PC-BSD site is down?

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tankist02

Since yesterday I see this:

Code: 
Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service Unavailable

Error:
Transaction ID: 410380322

Diagnostics:

[LIST]
[*]Client IP: <censored>
[*]Server IP: 94.100.23.179
[*]Transaction Type: GET
[*]Site: www.pcbsd.org
[*]Request URI: /
[*]Backend: pcbsd
[*]Object Status: 503
[*]Object Response: Service Unavailable
[*]Object State: (null)
[*]Object Reason: (null)
[/LIST]
 
That's ridiculous. The PC-BSD website (and everything around PC-BSD) has nothing to do with FreeBSD.
 
I haven't been able to access any PC-BSD pages, web.pcbsd.org or otherwise for about two days. Seems they went off-line shortly after PC-BSD 10.3 was released.
 
cpm said:
… guess that PC-BSD is migrating to a new website.

http://web.pcbsd.org
Click to expand...

Yep, http://lists.pcbsd.org/pipermail/testing/2016-April/010535.html

> … a migration and then a router decided to die at the same time :( …

http://lists.pcbsd.org/pipermail/testing/2016-April/010538.html

> … on our end, the server which hosts the freebsd-update files is very very sad at the moment. We are trying to get it back up to healthy status, but it might be another day or so.

In irc://chat.freenode.net/#pcbsd today I made a suggestion,

> … http://lists.pcbsd.org/pipermail/announce maybe make an announcement about recent downtimes and plan of action.

Postscript

When I last glanced at http://web.pcbsd.org/ it was no different from the content that's normally seen at http://www.pcbsd.org/ – whilst there's migration of some sort, I'm not aware of any plan to shift away from normal use of the www.pcbsd.org domain.
 
What is going on with PC-BSD? It is still down?

Last week, it took me 10 tries to upgrade from 10.2 to 10.3--I suspect largely due to the updater script failing to download "patches"-- and the forums + website appeared to be very slow. Now the sites do no load at all. Has there been some announcement someplace? The moribund mailing lists don't say anything about problems with the site....

(At least on my system, the failure to chroot into the boot environment is always preceded by a screen full on numbers "downloading patches 23....45....99...52...FAILED". Letting the automatic installer attempt to upgrade each day usually succeeds in 10 to 14 days after release. That's how it was for me on 10.1->2, so now I'm used to it. Even though the GUI update manager is set to upgrade everything automatically, one still has to click a button to start the major upgrade. I guess this behavior is on-purpose.....)

A flakey update manager and support that is down for DAYS without any explanation does not inspire much confidence in PC-BSD. There isn't even a forum in which to bitch about it! btw, problems with the updater scripts (often can't chroot into boot environment) have been with PC-BSD for over a year; you can find reference to them over and over in mailing lists, usually a developer saying the problem is solved, the user saying nope, it is still there, the devoloper saying he can't reproduce the bug....

Did I miss something? Has PC-BSD discussion moved to Twatter or ArseBook?
 
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