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2021-03-07 04:10:55 Hello everyone. TX and SX websites are down again, for 12 hours already.

According to our observations, we can make accurate conclusions about why it happens.

Within last half year we have seen their websites in those states:
1) TX, SX websites and SX license are up.
2) TX, SX websites and SX license are down. Each one shows CloudFlare Error 523.
3) TX, SX websites are up but SX license is down.
4) TX website shows "Database error", SX website is up, SX license is down.

Facts:
* TX and SX websites goes up and down exactly at the same time. This is proof that they are both hosted in the same datacenter and running in the same server.
* "Database error" on TX website appears only after long down time, and while it is visible, SX license does not work too. It is a proof that both TX and SX websites using the same database.
* The state in option 3) is always appears for a short time. It is a proof that SX license server was down because of high number of pending activation requests.
* Both TX and SX websites using CloudFlare DDoS protection service
* CloudFlare servers sometimes can't connect to TX/SX hosted website.
* CloudFlare service will share the real servers IPs with police by their request

Possible reasons which with high chances can't be true:
* Domains arrested. Since CloudFlare do share real IPs with police, if they could take it down, they would do it already. Anyway in this case we should see some message like this "domain has been seized" or to get no DNS records at all, but never a CloudFlare errors (what is happening now). So downtimes that we can see are not caused by this.
* Website DDoS attack. Since they are using CloudFlare DDoS protection system, we can say for sure that servers could handle DDoS attacks. In other cases one of websites TX or SX should go down with Error 523 while other one is up, but that never happened.
* Database DDoS attack. If it happens we should see error from 4) option listed above. Since that error appeared only after each long downtime, it is most likely caused by long boot time of database server, not by any attacks.

After analyzing all of the available information, we believe that their server is simply turned off right now. It may be caused by their hosting provider or just because of hardware/software failure, actually the reason is not important for us.

Most interesting question is who and when will turn it on again? And who was turning it on every previous times? Hosting provider or TX team?

Knowing all those statistics we expect that their servers are down in different reason than DDoS attacks. And since every hosting provider always turning on servers after a maintenance, this could lead to turning on all services automatically. Regular hosting provider maintenance takes 1-4 hours, and doing it not more than once per month. So why TX and SX websites are down sometimes for so long time, 10+ hours and even days?

Here is the only explanation that fits all of this information. Their servers are running on encrypted storage to prevent any leaks by hosting provider or police. After each server reboot encrypted storage won't let automatic services start, someone have to enter encryption password remotely every time. And since those people are not available all the time, they doing it with random delays.

Thats why with high chances it is a proof that there is a people who are working behind and keeping it up. If you are reading this, thank you for what you are doing!

Every time once TX and SX servers going down, there is a lot of fake news appeared in Internet. So don't believe them. No one knows what is really happening behind. All we know that while SX, TX and license servers continuing to recover, there is a hope that we will get SX OS update in a future.

Once SX OS update released you will get notification here @SX_OS almost instantly.

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2021-03-05 17:08:10 SX websites are UP again!
They were down for 24 hours.
It is not a first time and most likely not the last one.

84 days passed since FW 11.0.1 released and we still have no new SX OS updates.

Anyway I have another news for you. I highly recommend to use a dual boot for both OFW and CFW. And there is a good reason for that.

I'm sure you can remember at least few favorite, really great games, that you played many years ago. It brought to you lots of amazing feelings and you will never forget about that. Unfortunately many of games like that are lost and developers never released a sequel. It is obviously that developers had no more money to create new games.

Thats why I invite everyone to buy games that you really like, and if you can boot in to OFW, you can easily do it. I know that not every of you have enough money to buy a games, since prices are so high.

Thats why I have started new channel where you can find a price drops of your favorite games without booting to OFW!

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2021-02-23 16:21:46 SX websites are UP!
They were down for 3 days, 3 hours and 3 minutes.

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2021-02-21 17:21:36 SX License is DOWN
Last seen online 28 hours ago

SX Website is DOWN
Last seen online 28 hours ago

It is not first time that they are down for so long, so most likely it is not last one down time.

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2021-02-12 17:09:34 SX and TX websites UP again!
They were down for 46 hours and 34 minutes.

Since SX website and TX forum were down at the same time, we think it was a hosting problem, not a specific website issue. So most likely it was fixed by their hosting provider.

UPD1: TX forum become reachable, but still shows Error establishing a database connection. Maybe it is related to the fact that license activation is still unavailable. Which maybe need a human interaction to fix, or just to wait until their database started

UPD2: Once TX forum database error gone, sx license started to work again, so it is sign that all their websites using the same database and they are located in the same datacenter.

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2021-02-06 02:28:16 Hello everyone!

It is 57 days passed since OFW v11.0.1 released and we still have no SX OS updates. Once an update released, our bot will post news here almost instantly.

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2021-01-28 00:30:39 Hello everyone!

SX servers are UP again!
They were down for 39 hours, 18 minutes and 45 seconds.

Most likely it is a good sign that someone fixed it, anyway we have no information about when new SX OS update going to be released.

Many of you didn't want to wait and already using Atmosphere. It is easy to switch to/from Atmosphere without loosing saves and apps, so you can switch back to SX OS once it available. If you need help with that, or you can help others, join our chats.

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2021-01-26 21:42:08 Both SX website and license are down for 13 hours already. Once they up again we will accept it as proof that someone is working on it. Of course there is a chance that it is hosting company will fix that, not TX team, but this is all information we have + our hope.

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2021-01-21 23:09:28 Hello everyone!

It is 41 days passed since OFW v11.0.1 released and we still have no SX OS updates. Most likely TX team have some problems and will come back once solved. We continue to believe in that because SX servers are still online!

With hope that TX team may read this post, we wish them all the best, and most important to be in safe and healthy.

Our community is growing, and more and more people joining every day. Remember, because of you are helping each other and sharing advices in our chats, many families become happier, since their NS is fixed!

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