The web server smile was rebooted today to fix an unknown problem with maintenance processes. One of our late-night “cleanup” scripts seems to have run amuck, and sucked up all the CPU. The machine was re-booted at 12:17 PM CDT, … Continue reading
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I have been informed that our upstream link will have work done on May 25th, 2017. I was told that the link could be down “all day”. I am working to minimize this downtime, and if it is unavoidable, I … Continue reading
The system time taken to upgrade our equiment was successful. Our upstream connectivity was down from 7:10 PM CDT to 7:40 PM CDT. The work went smoothly. We are sorry for the interruption of service. … Continue reading
Our upstream connection went down at 7:05 AM CDT, and was restored to service at 7:52 AM CDT. No data was lost. … Continue reading
The system time this morning went without major incident. Smile (web server) was down from 7:06 AM CDT to 7:16 AM CDT. All services are now up and operating normallly. … Continue reading
We will be taking system time at 6 AM CDT on May 14th, 2017. The plan is to upgrade PHP and its supporting software. Some services are expected to be unaffected (email, DNS), and others will be briefly unavailable, or unstable. (HTTP, list server, SQL … Continue reading
Our upstream connection went down at 9:20 AM CDT, and was restored to service at 9:24 AM CDT. No data was lost. … Continue reading
At 11:28 AM CDT on May 3rd, the web server smile crashed. The cause appears to be a disk driver bug. Smile was rebooted at 11:55 AM CDT. We are sorry for the interruption of service. … Continue reading
Our upstream connection went down at 2:48 PM CDT because the upstream provider is upgrading the electronics. It is estimated that we will be down until around 5:00 PM CDT. (update 3:57 PM CDT) The upstream connection has returned as … Continue reading
At approximately 16:26 PM CDT the web and shell server smile stopped responding due to a kernel panic. At 16:34 PM CDT, the web server was restored to full function. We apologize for the outage. … Continue reading
The planned system time scheduled for this morning went smoothly. Our web server smile, and the mail server mailhost wre down intermittently from 6:11 AM CST to almost 9:00 AM CST. Customer VMs were down briefly from about 6:15 AM to 6:45 AM. All services have now been restored. … Continue reading
We will be taking system time at 6 AM CST on March 11th, 2017. The plan is to migrate the server smile to new hardware – with an SSD disk and “real” HW (smile is a VM today). Some services are expected to be unaffected … Continue reading