Fire experienced a minor incident on January 19, 2026, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- resolved Jan 19, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC
Type: Maintenance Duration: 6 days, 20 hours and 32 minutes Affected Components: Aether, Website, Bot Jan 19, 10:00:00 GMT+0 - Identified - During 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 Jan 19, 10:00:01 GMT+0 - Identified - Maintenance is now in progress Jan 19, 10:17:01 GMT+0 - Identified - The 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 Jan 19, 10:49:08 GMT+0 - Identified - The snapshot has been taken and the software side of the upgrades is now in progress Jan 19, 10:07:09 GMT+0 - Identified - Redirects 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 Jan 19, 12:44:31 GMT+0 - Completed - Maintenance 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)