The Aftersleep outage

The 509 Bandwidth error saga

Here I'll be documenting about the Aftersleep outage from Christmas 2025.

December 2025: The outage begins

To begin it, Aftersleep was a webforum where you could discuss about certain topics, and have your own personal website. I only wrote two posts there, and both of them were made in November. However, in Christmas 2025, they hit a Bandwidth Limit Exceeded error. I don't really know the exact causes, but I assume it's because of high traffic on that day. I wouldn't have found out about that until December 30th.

January 2026: Early maintenance

Starting on January 1st, they began maintenance. I decided to go on WayBack Machine just to revisit the forum. But I found something: a post from Mariteaux (the creator of Somnolescent.net) telling what to do if Aftersleep went down. And that's how I found out about their Rizon IRC room. I don't chat with them that often, but at least it was a good find. It was also around that time I began building this website. When the forum comes back, I should make sure about linking this page to my profile.

February 2026: Resurface of five pages

I was bored one day and decided to google aftersleep.org. But I saw a few things: First, there was an favicon update to HD Clifford. Second, five pages returned activity: The Textua Minecraft server, the user index, the Paintpost, the Afterfront archives and the TOS (although the websites linked to the forum were the first ones to return back in January). I decided to post a pic of my old OC as a test, and it worked. The most complex part is the main forum. Since it has pretty much everything, it'd involve migrating every post from every user, and also migrate every section linked to it. Just hearing it, you know it's a lot. Now, there isn't a confirmed full return date (as of March 2026), but I assume it'll be in mid-to-late 2026. If it's about an optimistic date, probably June 2026. But if it's about a realistic date, likely October/November 2026, which would be nearly a year since the outage began.