Category Archives: BrownRoom

ProtonVPN – August 2026

In June 2026, ProtonVPN were blocking a different domain belonging to us, they were adamant that they’re weren’t until someone did actually work out they were blocking a domain. We actually in the end totally gave up on that project down to ProtonVPN

We previously moved our status page from https://brownuptime.com to https://uptime.brownroom.org believing that was sufficient, but thanks to ProtonVPN, we’ve had to move it back to https://brownuptime.com because ProtonVPN is blocking brownroom.org but since we’re being blocked twice taking a status page more seriously by adding https://brownstatus.org to follow the status of all brown websites and take if the sites are working for everyone more seriously

Now brownroom.org doesn’t work with ProtonVPN. But their AI bot, lumo makes various excuses

hobby run on a shoestring” by “a couple of people” it’s actually professionally run and not by “a couple of people”

Errors 1132 have nothing to do with the websever, that is a Zoom error message

The domains do not have different infrastructures, both domains are registered with the same registrar, same DNS and same professional webhosting company on a professional webserver the webserver is monitored every minute

Not a firewall issue, host, CDN or routing – although we are regretting having a link to your VPN with free trial to your VPN. We now recommend SurfShark instead

No we don’t use CloudFlare we don’t like CAPTCHA‘s either and we’re not firewalling your CIDR blocks … yet

If brownuptime.com works then brownroom.org would work too. Now your screwing with two domains, we’ve registered brownstatus.org as clearly there is going to be ongoing issues with ProtonVPN

Brown Room Issues on 1 and 2 December 2025

Although we do have systems monitoring the website, no alerts ever received regarding the site being up and down on 1 December 2025 and we randomly discovered there was an issue but was resolved

However on 2 December 2025 we realised there was still a problem, but with external systems which should have fixed issues from 1 December. Now we’ve made sure updates to 1 December taken place, all looks good

Whoops – brownroom.org

We’ve been tweaking with some settings and discovered we’ve broken something, even though we realised the cockup, after being alerted, it’s now fixed, but the site is still offline – but should start working soon.

According to the external testing, the site was offline between 1340 to 1420 Zulu on 26 January 2025, but all is resolved now

We’re really sorry for the downtime.