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Debian upgrade completed successfully

Posted on 2012-04-21 by garf

Well, it’s 03:00 UTC and I am pleased and relieved to report that the upgrade from Debian “Lenny” to Debian “Squeeze” seems to be successful. We had two periods of downtime of around twenty minutes each. First one was caused … Continue reading →

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Major planned server upgrade 2012-04-21 and 2012-04-22

Posted on 2012-04-20 by garf

I have to do a major operating system upgrade to the DEOSS server this weekend. I have already piloted the upgrade on a test server and it worked out OK. Well there was a nasty issue with the MySQL server … Continue reading →

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Server upgrades complete

Posted on 2012-04-12 by garf

A large round of server upgrades announced 2012-03-05 have now been completed successfully. There were no major issue and no server downtime.  The entire DEOSS Community Server is now being mirrored to an off-site remote backup server.

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More server upgrades

Posted on 2012-03-05 by garf

A number of significant server upgrades are currently underway. Whilst this is going to be a relatively long job, we don’t anticipate any significant server downtime. We will post again when the upgrades are complete

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Server software upgrades

Posted on 2011-12-14 by garf

All the main content management systems hosted here on the DEOSS community server have just been upgraded, including all those using Coppermine, eGroupware, Joomla, Moodle, phpBB, Tikiwiki and WordPress. A significant number of Wordplus plugins such as the contact forms … Continue reading →

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Routine server upgrades

Posted on 2011-10-11 by garf

A number of routine server upgrades have just been completed. This includes critical security updates to Moodle, as well as routine updates to all sites using Coppermine, eGroupware, Joomla,  phpBB, Tikiwiki and WordPress. All third-party WordPress plugins have also been … Continue reading →

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Server upgrades

Posted on 2011-08-02 by garf

All the main content management systems hosted here on the DEOSS community server have been upgraded, including all those using Coppermine, eGroupware, Joomla, Moodle, phpBB, Tikiwiki and WordPress. A significant number of Wordplus plugins such as the contact forms and … Continue reading →

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Routine Server upgrades

Posted on 2011-07-10 by garf

A number of routine server upgrades have just been completed. This includes updates to all sites using Coppermine, eGroupware, Joomla, Moodle, phpBB, Tikiwiki and WordPress. All outstanding WordPress plugins have also been upgraded. We have also undertaken routine Debian updates. … Continue reading →

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Email woes

Posted on 2011-05-11 by garf

Two rather irritating issues have upset our usually fairly smooth email service lately:- SSL certificates expired on 2011-05-03. Naturally we updated these ASAP. However some users may have experienced some bizarre error messages whilst collecting your mail. At approximately 2011-05-11 … Continue reading →

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Moodle security update

Posted on 2011-05-10 by garf

Following a fairly persuasively-worded, round-robin security warning from Moodle developer earlier today, Martin Dougiamas, all our Moodle installations have just been upgraded. All seems to have gone smoothly and there was no server downtime.

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