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Server upgrade (our biggest ever!)

Today saw the completion of our biggest ever server upgrade. This will allow us a lot ore room for expansion, along with faster, smoother sites, and easier day-to-day management. However we are sad to be saying goodbye to our trusty … Continue reading

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Server upgrade

I had to take the DEOSS server off-line for a couple of hours this evening for a routine server operating system update. Essentially it involved upgrading its underlying Debian GNU/Linux operating system from version 10 (“buster” aka “old stable”) to … Continue reading

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Urgent hard disk replacement

Yesterday, 2022-11-28, we needed to do some fairly urgent maintenance work on the DEOSS Community Server. One of its hard disks was failing. The server resides in a data centre in York, and Bytemark (my upstream provider) engineers undertook the … Continue reading

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Email issues fixed

Following our recent (2022-02-13) server upgrade, users were having problems collecting their IMAP /POP3  emails from the server. It turned out to be a relatively minor Dovecot configuration issue – just one line in a config file, in fact! Anyway, … Continue reading

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Major server upgrade

We’ve just undertaken another major server upgrade. This time it was a full operating system upgrade. This inevitably caused a little unavoidable downtime. The server was offline for about an hour today. But it is up and running again now. … Continue reading

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Another server upgrade

In addition to the usual routine back-end site updates, we just undertook a fairly serious security upgrade to the sever too. Consequently, DEOSS Community Server was down for around 30 minutes this afternoon. While undertaking the upgrade we took the … Continue reading

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Server upgrade

We are planning some fairly major work on the DEOSS server over the Bank Holiday weekend. This will include a major operating system upgrade. It will also entail several server reboots. There may also be some further temporary unavoidable outages … Continue reading

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Server Outage

We suffered a short server outage yesterday afternoon, around 16:40 UTC. Turns out that one of the two hard disk’s in the server’s RAID1 array had developed a fault. So we had to take the server off line and replace … Continue reading

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Server upgrade

We have just completed a fairly major server OS and software upgrade today. Frankly this was long overdue and was delayed because we knew it would be quite a messy business and could result in some server downtime. Fortunately the … Continue reading

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Moving to HTTPS

You may have noticed that when you access your site, there is a change in the way the URL looks in the address-bar on your browser? In a long-overdue upgrade, all our customer sites have been upgraded from HTTP (hypertext … Continue reading

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