Downtime: June 20, 2016

Monday, June 20, 2016
Our technicians have mitigated a hacking/flood attack on our website server that resulted in Paterson Times being offline from 8:09 a.m. to 10:35 a.m.

We apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused.

Website downtime Feb. 13, 2016

Saturday, February 13, 2016
Our website was offline for approximately two hours this morning into the afternoon due to heavy number of visitors.

Paterson Times technicians were able to restore the website by 1 p.m.

Downtime began at 11 a.m. and ended at 1 p.m. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Paterson Times Staff

Twitter share count, once broken, now fixed

Monday, January 18, 2016
The Twitter share count feature that went offline and remained for a few weeks has been fixed. The counter that's used by hundreds of thousands of websites on the internet was disabled by Twitter.

Paterson Times' sharing center showing two shares on Twitter.

We've since switched to a different mechanism to obtain the share count from the microblogging website.

Thank you for bearing with us as we worked to remove this minor issue that resulted from Twitter's actions.


Eight hours of downtime

Sunday, January 3, 2016
We recently experienced an unexpectedly prolonged outage at our Chicago data center. The downtime lasted for 7 hours, 47 minutes and 2 seconds.

Paterson Times went offline at 4:30 p.m. on January 2, 2016. It was back online at 12:17 a.m. on January 3, 2016.

The outage resulted from a “physical fiber connection issue” between the internet connection provider and the facility in which the server racks are hosted.

The issue has been resolved. However, as of now, we are working to find alternative solutions to ensure such prolonged downtimes are prevented in the future.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.

Paterson Times Team