Re: [openblox-users] The Great Server Outage of 2015

["John M. Harris, Jr." <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 12:29 -0500, John M. Harris, Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 02:02 -0500, John M. Harris, Jr. wrote:
> > The primary server, which is meant to host the OpenBlox
> > repositories,
> > cgit, and our continuous integration master, is currently down for
> > an
> > unknown reason. I will be looking into this issue further in the
> > morning, but thought that it was important to get this message out
> > as
> > soon as possible.
> > 
> > We do have a backup server, that we can use if absolutely
> > necessary,
> > and I can easily have openblox.org back up and running within a
> > day.
> > OpenBlox team members, currently, need to use their personal email
> > to
> > respond on this list, as their mail is currently down with Switch.
> > 
> > I will do my best to have this resolved in a timely manner and,
> > hopefully, with the least reconfiguration possible.
> > 
> 
> I can confirm that the issue was, indeed, the hard drive. I'm
> currently
> attempting to recover anything that I can from the drive, before I
> replace the drive and get the server back online. Please be patient.
> 

The primary server of the OpenBlox Project is back up. I was not able
to recover any files from the old server. The "git" subdomain, hosting
our repositories, is currently down pending new a new TLS certificate.

I have just completed configuration of our mail server, members of the
OpenBlox team will have access to their accounts soon.

I will continue to send updates to this thread, as the status of our
infrastructure changes.