We will be having a short downtime for 30 minutes sometime between Thursday Jun 25 10pm to Friday Jun 26 2am (Pacific Standard Time). Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

Folks,

We will be having a short downtime for 30 minutes sometime between Wednesday May 13 10pm to Thursday May 14 2am. Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

Sorry guys, the availability of Buxfer has been quite shaky in the past few days. We are looking into the problem, and should have it resolved very soon. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this causes you, and hope you will bear with us.

You can now follow the user buxfer on twitter to get the latest updates about Buxfer. We will use it to inform you about recent problems / resolutions / new features or any other news which could be relevant.

We should have done this long ago, but I guess better late than never :)

Some of you might have received 20-30 emails too many from Buxfer, this morning! Sorry folks, we screwed up. Please accept our apologies.

We have taken care of this issue now, and everything should be working fine. Thanks for your patience.

The new year has brought on a lot of accolades, tons of new users and a lot of great feedback. However, we also noticed a consistent refrain: Buxfer is very cool and useful, but it’s slow - particularly for our international users! Well, that’s no good and it can certainly be a show-stopper.

So, we bought a new very powerful machine and we will be migrating to that server on Sunday. The planned downtime is from 9pm PST to 12midnight PST. If you find Buxfer unavailable or behaving erratically during that time, please cut us some slack :)

This is just the first step towards enhancing the performance of our system. We know there are quite a few places where we can optimize a lot. We will not stop until our interface is as responsive as GMail, for example, is.

Update: The migration has happened, folks, and we definitely feel a speed difference. Do you find Buxfer to be faster? Whatever the verdict, let us know so we will know what’s working and what isn’t!

Folks, it looks like Twitter has stopped sending direct messages to the ‘bux’ twitter user. We are trying to figure out why! Until then, you will sadly need to use the ’sms  [[ AT ]] buxfer [[ DOT ]] com’ email address or your secret email address to post transactions. I will post an update here as soon as there is a resolution. Thanks for your patience!

Folks, one of our upstream ISPs (Savvis or Level3) is having a problem with their networks resulting in extremely slow network connections to Buxfer at least from California (and perhaps other places.) We have contacted our hosting provider about this. I hope you will be patient for the next couple days.

Update [Oct 08, 1747 PST]: Looks like the problem is resolved now.