Today’s site outage: The lowdown

Written by Matt in Site status at 2:16pm, Wed 9 Oct 2013

We posted about some site issues earlier and these culminated in us taking the site down from 11:58am until 1pm today. We’re sorry for any hassles this caused our members.

At 11.58am we identified the root cause of the issues we’d seen earlier involved a problem with replication between our database servers. As a precautionary measure, we took the site down to enable us to resolve the issue.

We have extended all listings that were due to close between 11am and 1.30pm by five hours. For example, an auction set to close at 12pm will now close at 5pm.