Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance

If you ever get this message, that’s because we try and keep our software bang up to date. Check back in a minute or 2 and it should be all good again, generally.

With literally 10s of thousands of pieces of code that strap our systems together it is not easy, with up to 10 minor updates and tweaks required every week.

What’s new in Ourlocality

Every so often we roll out a new release, so we’re giving you the heads up for what to expect next.

We need to talk about security

Below is a brief summary of attempts to break in to OurLocality since April 17th 2015. That doesn’t include the multitude of attacks on the server, which happen every second of every day. We try our best to keep you secure, but…

Unscheduled maintenance

We’re taking our server, cutely named Agora, offline whilst we undertake some necessary updates. Intermittently all the services will be restarted a few times during the updates, which means that OurLocality will also be offline.

Local is the New Global

Because we like to keep things bang up to date, over the w/e we released Version 4.2 of WordPress, named “Powell” in honor of jazz pianist Bud Powell, on OurLocality. New features in 4.2 help you communicate and share, globally…

Unexplained Outage

Without warning yesterday at 14:30 we experienced a complete website and platform outage. Normal service was resumed only after at 19:00. This is probably one of the longest unplanned outages that we have ever experienced, so big apologies for that…