28Oct2014

Improve website loading speed

Fast websites on our servers just got faster with GZIP compression.

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22Oct2014

WWW-26 Server Replacement – 23 and 24 October

WWW-26 Server Replacement – 23 and 24 October

We will replace Linux server WWW-26 shortly, with site migration occurring on Thursday through Saturday. The current server has served us reliably for nearly three years, but a recent problem with the integrity of the RAID array cannot be fixed without major service disruption.

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14Oct2014

The bad guys never sleep

The bad guys never sleep

Patch Tuesday saw a couple really nasty holes in Windows being plugged today. And then there is the news of the passwords for many DropBox accounts being leaked as well (apparently not DropBox’s fault though).

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10Oct2014

Server WWW-26 RAID Maintenance – 9 to 18 October

Server WWW-26 RAID Maintenance - 9 to 18 October

The RAID array on Linux server WWW-26  reporting errors. As a precautionary but essential measure, we are replacing both hard drives in the array.

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7Oct2014

Spam filtering problem – 7 October

Spam filtering problem - 7 October

A misconfiguration in one of the SpamAssassin rules resulted in some incoming email to be incorrectly flagged as spam. This resulted in those messages to be denied delivery.

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