Upgrading to InspIRCd 1.2.0 “Stable”
InspIRCd 1.2.0 has been released as "stable", and we will therefore be upgrading to it over the next day or so.
This release should fix the problems that the US server had been having in July and August.
Due to the US server having a netsplit earlier, we upgraded it a short while ago, and it is now back up.
The UK and DE servers will be upgraded in the small hours of tomorrow morning -- tomorrow being 23/9 -- to reduce impact to users as much as possible.
The upgrade should take less than 5 minutes, however thing don't always go as planned, so please bare with us if it ends up taking a little longer!
Update @ 02:00: The upgrade went as planned with less than 1 minute of downtime 
US Server Crashes (cont.)
The US server is currently down while we investigate the crashing problem. It should be back up soon - in the meantime, you can use the UK server (uk.irc.j3di.org) or the German server (de.irc.j3di.org).
Update @ 20:50: The US server is now back, but may be slower than normal due to running in debug mode to try and diagnose the root cause of these crashes.
IRCd Upgrade
We will be upgrading the Inspire IRCd software on all servers to 1.2.0 RC4 at the beginning of this coming weekend.
The upgrade will take place around midnight on Saturday, UK time (click here to see when that will be in your time zone), and should take no longer than 15 minutes.
This should help reduce (or even eliminate) the crashes the US server has been having recently
Updated @ 00:30: The upgrade went smoothly, and we are now running on 1.2.0rc4. 
US Server Crashes
The US server has started crashing after it has been running for several days. We are still looking into the problem, and will update this post when we find the cause (and/or a solution).
We apologise for any inconvenience this causes.
Updated @ 00:30 08/08/09: We have upgraded to the recently-released InspIRCd 1.2.0rc4, which will hopefully solve this issue.
Scheduled Downtime for UK Server Datacenter Network
There will be two short periods of time next week when it will not be possible to connect to the UK server.
This is due to the datacenter that hosts the server needing to perform maintenance work on their core router.
The times for this maintenance are as follows:
- 02:00 BST on 21st July, for ~20 minutes: To "upgrade the IOS firmware"
- 02:00 BST on 22nd July, for ~30 minutes: To "create a high availability cluster"
