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03/29 – Power outage

Posted on March 29, 2021 by System AdminSeptember 18, 2021

Today at 4:40 PM CDT, our upstream connection failed due to a power failure. At of 6:06 PM CDT, power and upstream connectivity were restored. We apologize for the interruption in service. … Continue reading →

Posted in Facility Events | Tagged power, upstream

2/25 – Mail troubles

Posted on February 25, 2021 by System AdminFebruary 25, 2021

Administrative error caused outgoing email to be blocked for certain customers using SSL SMTP connections. I apologize for the disruption. No mail was lost. The problem started in the early afternoon. it was fixed at 5:15 PM CST. Immediately after … Continue reading →

Posted in email, Facility Events | Tagged email

12/14 – Mercy upgrade (again)

Posted on December 18, 2020 by System AdminDecember 18, 2020

On Dec 14th, 2020 about 10:15 PM CST, Mercy was swapped with spare PPC server, with a new root disk. This completes the replacement/upgrade activity on mercy starting with the recent disk failure (see 11/16/2020). The new disk is flash … Continue reading →

Posted in Facility Events | Tagged server

12/6 – Mercy disk failure

Posted on December 6, 2020 by System AdminDecember 6, 2020

The disk in newly upgraded server mercy failed this evening at 9:18 PM CST. Fortunately, due to ongoing related work, the resultant downtime was less than 8 minutes. Mercy was back up by 9:26 PM CST. … Continue reading →

Posted in Facility Events | Tagged crash, equipment

12/5 – system time successful

Posted on December 5, 2020 by System AdminDecember 18, 2020

This morning at 6 AM CST Dec 5th, our two web servers smile and mercy were upgraded. Smile to PHP 7.3. Mercy with a much more substantial upgrade of its OS from NetBSD 7.2 to NetBSD 8.2 and upgraded packages … Continue reading →

Posted in Facility Events

12/3 – Planned upgrades Dec 5th @ 6 AM

Posted on December 3, 2020 by System AdminDecember 3, 2020

At 6 AM CST Dec 5th, our two web servers smile and mercy will be upgraded. Smile will get a PHP upgrade from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.3. Mercy will get a much more substnatial upgrade of its OS from … Continue reading →

Posted in Facility Events | Tagged upgrade

11/28 – Mercy upgrade failed

Posted on November 29, 2020 by System AdminNovember 29, 2020

At 11 PM on Nov 28th, an upgrade was attemptted on our old web server mercy. There were problems found and the upgrade was reversed. Mercy was restored to service by midnight. … Continue reading →

Posted in Facility Events | Tagged upgrade

11/25 – Brief mail server outage

Posted on November 25, 2020 by System AdminNovember 25, 2020

The mail server crashed this morning at 9:43 AM CST, Nov 25, 2020. It was brought back on-line at 9:59 AM CST. … Continue reading →

Posted in email | Tagged crash, EIMS, email

11/16 – Mercy disk failure

Posted on November 16, 2020 by System AdminNovember 16, 2020

At about 11:20 PM CST on Nov 15th, the server mercy became sluggish due to a failing hard disk. Fortunately, mercy only hosts a small fraction of our service so the impact should be minimal. About 2:40 AM CST mercy … Continue reading →

Posted in Facility Events | Tagged crash, equipment

11/14 – Late night mail server crash

Posted on November 14, 2020 by System AdminNovember 14, 2020

Our EIMS mail server crashed again at 3:01 AM CSTNOV 14, 2020 It was brought back up within an hour at 3:56 AM CST. … Continue reading →

Posted in email | Tagged EIMS

11/7 – System time successful

Posted on November 7, 2020 by System AdminNovember 14, 2020

The scheduled maintenance on Saturday morning Novebmer 7th, 2020 between 6 and 9 AM CDT was successful. Our web server was upgraded to NetBSD 8.2, and a newer, faster platform was installed. *.icompute.com was unavailable from about 6:30 AM CST … Continue reading →

Posted in Facility Events

10/31 – upcoming system time and upgrade on 11/7

Posted on October 31, 2020 by System AdminOctober 31, 2020

We are planning to upgrade our main web and shell server on Saturday morning November 11th between 6 and 10 AM CST. The hardware will be replaced with a newer and faster CPU, and the OS will be upgraded from … Continue reading →

Posted in Facility Events | Tagged system time, upgrade

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