Scheduled for January 19, 2026 at 10:00 AM – 12:44 PM
Affects
Bot
Under maintenance from 10:00 AM to 12:44 PM
Website
Under maintenance from 10:00 AM to 12:44 PM
Backend
Under maintenance from 10:00 AM to 12:44 PM
Aether
Under maintenance from 10:00 AM to 12:44 PM
Extras
Under maintenance from 10:00 AM to 12:44 PM
Hastebin
Under maintenance from 10:00 AM to 12:44 PM
Completed
January 19, 2026 at 12:44 PMCompleted
January 19, 2026 at 12:44 PMMaintenance has completed successfully.... almost.
During the upgrades, Fire's postgres installation got completely removed along with all the data. Fortunately, I have backups, but only for the main bot. Fire Beta has had its database recreated from scratch so no previous data will be present there so if you were relying on that, you shouldn't have!
Aside from that, everything looks to be in working order. NodeJS has been updated to the latest LTS release, nginx has been updated to the latest release, postgres has been updated to the latest release and internal tooling (e.g. Grafana, Telegraf) has also been updated
I'll be keeping a close eye on things throughout today to ensure things continue running smoothly. If you encounter any issues, let me know in the Fire Discord (discord.gg/firebot)
Update
January 19, 2026 at 10:49 AMUpdate
January 19, 2026 at 10:49 AMThe snapshot has been taken and the software side of the upgrades is now in progress
Update
January 19, 2026 at 10:17 AMUpdate
January 19, 2026 at 10:17 AMThe hardware of the server has been upgraded slightly (more vCPUs, more RAM & more storage) and I am now taking a snapshot of the server that I hopefully won't have to use but is there just in case anything goes wrong
Update
January 19, 2026 at 10:07 AMUpdate
January 19, 2026 at 10:07 AMRedirects have now been put in place to redirect any traffic to Fire's web services towards a dedicated maintenance page. I will now be turning off all services to start the upgrades
In progress
January 19, 2026 at 10:00 AMIn progress
January 19, 2026 at 10:00 AMMaintenance is now in progress
Planned
January 19, 2026 at 10:00 AMPlanned
January 19, 2026 at 10:00 AMDuring this time, several upgrades (both hardware & software) will be performed on Fire's VPS which will result in some lengthy downtime of ALL SERVICES.
This downtime is unfortunate but necessary to ensure stability, security and open the door for new features that require newer software versions
During this time, I will be keeping an eye on the Fire Discord (discord.gg/firebot) to answer any questions and let people know the current status of the upgrades.
I'll also be around for the next while to answer questions about this maintenance if you have any so feel free to join the Discord server and ask in the #fire-help channel
