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Lipidbook FAQ.

If you have a question please raise it in the issue tracker or ask on twitter and we will add it here.

Is Lipidbook back?

No, not yet (20 Jan 2020) – we are currently testing.

Don't use Lipidbook yet!

How can I know when something happens to Lipidbook?

Look at the twitter feed @lipidbook, where we will post any updates.

What happened to Lipidbook?

Since 2009, Lipidbook had been run from a small MacMini under someone's desk in Oxford. This setup proved less stable over the years and in the last few years, we had frequent outages. In March 2019, after we could not safely boot the system again, we decided to transition the site to a more durable infrastructure. However, that turned out to be a significant amount of work: evaluating different solutions and deciding on where to move (to AWS), how to pay for it (good question), and when to do the actual work (free time of Jan). Beginning of January 2020 we had a test site back up running from the backups. Once all tests and fixes are in place, the site should be running stably again.

Did you loose anything in the transition?

• We did not loose any of Lipidbook's content (deposited data, user information).
• We lost the old Wiki, issue tracker, and original FAQ, which were part of the original Trac installation.