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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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