VHFFS Database down

Posted on Sunday 4 July 2010, at 16:35 UTC

The server which is currently hosting the VHFFS database crashed.

All related services are down, which are mx1,pop,imap,ns1.

The server will be rebooted tomorrow in the morning, stay tuned ;-)

Edit: Good news, everything is back online ! ;)

Servers upgrade this night

Posted on Saturday 5 June 2010, at 23:55 UTC

A recent power outage is always a good opportunity to do kernel upgrades.

So, let's upgrade everything, there will be short service outages in the next hours ;-)

Edit: Done!

Hardware maintenance this night

Posted on Friday 4 June 2010, at 23:39 UTC

This night, we are going to switch to new power feeds.

You can expect an outage of most of our services (excepted failsafe services such as mx2/ns2) at any time starting... NOW :)

It shouldn't take long, please bear with us.

Edit: Done!, thank to the STS there wasn't any outage at all ;-)

Power outage

Posted on Wednesday 28 April 2010, at 04:30 UTC

This night, we had a power outage in our rack, yep, again, everything is back online.

Please bear with us.

Power outage

Posted on Thursday 22 April 2010, at 11:02 UTC

This night, we had a power outage in our rack, everything were back online a few tens of minutes later, however we need to do some urgent maintainance on one of our storage server. Stay tuned ;-)

Edit: Done, everything is back online !

Need funds, adding innovative ads to websites planned

Posted on Thursday 1 April 2010, at 00:12 UTC

Dear hosted,

Last July, we were alerting you about the difficulties TuxFamily is facing: lack of volunteers, financial difficulties. In a one-year-gap, the global volume of data has doubled. We host new, very dynamic projects, like Vikidia, and olders still active, like XMoto. The traffic is also increasing exponentially.

Thus, the board of directors and administrators of TuxFamily.org have begun an introspection in order to guarantee the sustainability of the hosting platform. This introspection is made even more urgent it appears essential to buy web servers in the short run to replace those currently used, which reach today saturation point.

We have immediately rejected the idea of billing the service, so have we for large ad banners on our hosted sites. It seemed to us we needed to work to a fun and discrete solution, both enjoyable and profitable.

A proposal has emerged, that has been adopted unanimously. It consists into embracing progressively an "advertising cursor". Our hosted' visitors would then get, in place of the dull, old-school cursor, the picture of a funny, appealing cute kitten.

This initiative will be effective on every web site in about 15 days. It's already available on some volontary websites :

• http://www.tuxfamily.org (obviously)
• http://www.vhffs.org (likewise)
• http://www.qelectrotech.org (warm thanks to the author)
• http://www.poudreverte.org
• http://faq.tuxfamily.org
• http://forum.tuxfamily.org

Elaborated with a specialized partner in animal-food, it's a win-win : TuxFamily expects a wonderful financial ROI and we expect, for our hosted projects, an increase of long-depth visits, related to the tenderness and sweetness that will emerge from your web sites.

Technically, we will use a transparent-proxy that will modify HTML files on-the-fly in order to add the "ad cursor".

We invite our hosted projects that would like to enable it immediately to take benefit of this service and then avoid any compatibility problem to just send us a mail.

TuxFamily.org team

Edit: Of course it was our yearly April fool joke ;-)

Short storage maintenance this night

Posted on Tuesday 23 March 2010, at 22:05 UTC

This night, we are going to work on our main storage server, mainly kernel upgrade, this shouldn't take long ;-).

Edit: Done ;)

Power feed lost

Posted on Monday 15 March 2010, at 17:21 UTC

We lost one of our power feed (out of 2) in our rack.

Everything is up and running but only half of our web servers are up, websites might be slower ;-)

Redundant hardware and software tricks saved us this time ;)

Edit: Power feed recovered, everything is running back at full speed.

A newsletter for TuxFamily.org

Posted on Thursday 28 January 2010, at 10:32 UTC

Our first newsletter is out!

We want to keep our users informed of what's happening here at TuxFamily. Every four months, you'll discover our new services, new projects, what we do in real life, and lots of statistics.

TuxFamily.org's newsletter #0 (in French).

Network outage on secondary services

Posted on Monday 26 October 2009, at 01:13 UTC

Hi,

Woa, a long time without news just happened ;)

Not so important but all secondary services (MX2, NS2, and so on) including this website were down for about a day due to a major network outage of the operator who is kindly hosting this server.

Wish them luck and a pleasant week start ;)