Monthly Archives: May 2010

DEOSS RSync’d

A full manual RSync of DEOSS to a remote server is currently being undertaken. Routine upgrades to our various web applications will then take place over the next 24 hours – after which the server will be Rsync’d again. No … Continue reading

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Server down for 30 minutes

The DEOSS community server was off line between 08:01 & 08:31 this morning. A hard drive in the raid array failed again. As this is the second disk failure within a week, our upstream provider has moved us into a … Continue reading

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DEOSS Groups returns

DEOSS.org’s eGroupware based Groups web application makes a triumphant return! Well perhaps that’s a slight exaggeration. But DEOSS users will be pleased to know that a much improved DEOSS Groups is now up and running. All DEOSS customers are entitled … Continue reading

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Manual rsync

DEOSS community server has just been manually rsync’d to a remote server following further minor system upgrade.

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Code libraries added for Moodle customers

A couple of additional code libraries have been added for the benefit of owners of Moodle-based sites: php5-xmlrpc php5-curl. This was a painless process resulting in zero downtime.

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Structural changes to DEOSS community web server

Overview I have been running various web projects since 1995. Trouble is that over that 15 years , content has become rather muddled and the function of the these various web presences has become blurred and hard to comprehend. The … Continue reading

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Server software updated and rsync’d

All the software and web/mail applications on this server have been updated and the entire server rsync’d to a remote backup server. As I said in an earlier post, whilst we have automated backup procedures in place, I feel more … Continue reading

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Up and running again – at last

Well, the good news is that the DEOSS community web server is finally back on line. It was taken down at 07:00 UTC this morning so that a faulty hard disk from the server’s RAID array could be replaced. It … Continue reading

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Server maintenance postponed till 2010-05-11 07:00 UTC

The server maintenance detailed in our last bulletin has been postponed until tomorrow 2010-05-11. It is currently scheduled to take place between 07:00-08:00 UTC (08:00-09:00 BST). Hopefully everything will be up and running before most of our users start work. … Continue reading

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Server Outage

Seems one of the hard disks in our RAID has died. This means it will be necessary to take down the server for up to an hour while the disk is replaced. It is hoped this will take place this … Continue reading

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