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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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Server outage

Apologies. We suffered a server outage for about ten minutes. The server locked up completely. We were able to reboot it remotely and initial diagnosis shows no obvious issues. However we are busy going through the logs to see what … Continue reading

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