[Dune] Problems with server in Heidelberg

Christian Engwer christian.engwer at uni-muenster.de
Fri Aug 28 18:30:04 CEST 2015


Hi Steffen, alternatively, we could move the mailing lists to the new
server already, they are all standard mailman stuff, so there
shouldn't be a big problem.

- git is more work, as we should discuss a switch to gitlab
- website is more work, due to a lot of reasons

Christian

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:00:49PM +0200, Steffen Müthing wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> the server in Heidelberg that hosts
> 
> - the web site
> - the bug tracker
> - the mailing lists
> - the repositories
> 
> spontaneously restarted this morning and subsequently failed to boot (in fact, it got stuck
> during the BIOS verification, so it is a hardware problem). I finally managed to get it up again,
> but I’m not convinced of its stability - as I don’t know what triggered the error, it might happen
> again at any time.
> 
> If the issue appears again, we might have to think about speeding up the move to the new
> server, but that might take several days.
> 
> Unfortunately, the mailing lists also depend on the server, so it’s impossible to inform people
> about problems as long as it is down. Maybe we should think about an independent place to
> post updates in that case? A Twitter account maybe?
> 
> Steffen
> 



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