apophis renamed to augustus
Samat -
Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 20:02
Tags: Announcement • nero
The server “apophis” has been renamed to “augustus”.
Webmail down yesterday and this morning (Jan 23-24)
Samat -
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 15:52
Tags: Downtime
Both of our webmail clients were down yesterday (Jan 23) and this morning (Jan 24). The problem causing the outage has been found and rectified.
anubis moved to new IP block
Samat -
Friday, January 5, 2007 - 00:13
Tags: Announcement • anubis
anubis has been moved to a new IP block, so there will be downtime with all services associated with it (DNS, backup e-mail, etc) as DNS changes propogate.
High-scoring spam e-mail now not delivered
Samat -
Monday, December 25, 2006 - 19:30
Tags: Announcement • caligula
In an effort to curb the amount of spam our clients need to deal with, we are now no longer delivering those messages designated as “high-scoring” to their mailbox.
High-scoring spam e-mail are those messages that have been marked by one of our spam filterers, SpamAssassin, as having a score greater than 10. It is very unlikely that messages with a score this high are legitimate e-mail. Spam messages with a score less than 10 will be continue to be delivered to your mailbox into the “Spam” folder, where you can check whether the message was correctly marked as spam.
While these messages are no longer being delivered to our clients’ e-mail accounts, they are not being deleted. If you think a message you did not receive was accidentally marked as a high-scoring spam message (again, this is very unlikely), contact us and we can check for you.
Switch to Mountain Standard time for caligula, apophis
Samat -
Saturday, December 9, 2006 - 20:10
Tags: Announcement • caligula • nero
Both servers caligula and apophis system clocks’ are now switched over to Mountain Standard Time (MST), over from the Central Standard Time.
The datacenter both these servers are located is within the Central time zone, but since Rhombic Networks and most our clients are in Mountain time, this change is long past due. We do not use
Drupal upgraded to 4.6.10 and 4.7.4
Samat -
Wednesday, November 22, 2006 - 22:01
Tags: Upgrade
Our shared Drupal installations have been upgraded to Drupal 4.6.10 and 4.7.4.
With the aging of the 4.6.x series, we’re going to start migrating clients’ sites to Drupal 4.7. We’ll be doing this one client at a time working on a per-site basis.
If you encounter any problems please submit a support ticket.
Apache problems on caligula; some modules disabled
There was a botched routine upgrade sometime earlier in the weekend, whose problems did not manifest till the Apache webserver on caligula was automatically restarted Sunday morning. Total downtime should have been only for a few hours Sunday morning; the server itself remained operational without any other problems.
The Apache problems have been temporarily resolved, but we had to disable some modules to get Apache working properly again.
If you encounter any problems, please send us a support ticket immediately.
caligula rebooted Sept 08; MySQL problems
caligula was rebooted Thursday, September 8 in response to a major SSL security bugfix. Rebooting was the only sure way to make sure all services dependent on SSL got restarted properly.
Across these reboots, MySQL had broken and was no longer starting automatically with the system. Downtime was slightly under 5 minutes till we noticed and corrected the problem. During this time any access to a database-powered site would have given an error about the inability to connect to our MySQL server.
All problems should now be resolved.
Drupal upgraded to 4.6.9 and 4.7.3
Samat -
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 - 16:35
Tags: Upgrade
We’ve upgraded our managed Drupal installs to Drupal 4.6.9 and 4.7.3, tracking security and bug fixes.
caligula kernel upgrade to 2.6.17
caligula was down for a few minutes today, for a kernel upgrade to Linux 2.6.17 and upgrade of various software, including phpMyAdmin and some of our Python modules. Total downtime was approx. 5 minutes.