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Employees.org News and Status

Employees.org downtime April 10th, 2010

Willers will be down starting 9AM PDT on Saturday, April 10th, 2010 for power work in the cabinet.

Accounts with bad passwords have been locked

 

Unplanned outage - 2010-Jan-16

Willers had an unplanned outage Saturday morning

Willers New Year's DOS attack

Willers down 2010-01-01 due to DOS attack

unplanned outage, 22 Sep

UPS failure at our colocation facility caused an outage most of 22-Sep

planned June 26, 2009 outage

Planned system outage, Friday, June 26, 2009

July 14-15 outage

Outage caused by disk problem

Squirrelmail now available

Squirrelmail has been installed on mail.employees.org

Email Changes

We will soon be blocking incoming unauthenticated email directly to employees.org -- it will have to be routed through the IronPort spam firewall. This change is because we are unable to adequately filter such email.

New Spam Firewall Installed

We are now using an IronPort anti-spam appliance in front of employees.org.

PHP has been upgraded to 4.4.8

PHP and all associated packages have been upgraded to version 4.4.8.

New spam firewall coming online soon

A new spam firewall will be activated on Thursday, January 31st in the morning.

Outage Dec 13th, 2007

 

Downtime Nov 3rd, 2007 at 11AM PDT for approx. 2 hours

 

Yet more disk problems

 

Status.Employees.Org

Website for emergency status updates.

Downtime Sept 21st, 2007 after 1730 PDT

 

Outage due to disk problems

 

Willers Downtime July 28th 2007 at 11AM

Willers will be down for potentially several hours on Saturday, July 28th 2007 starting at 11AM PDT.

Server stability issues

Server stability issues

Upcoming server relocation

The server will be relocated to a new datacenter late in the week of July 9th, necessating some periods of downtime that could last several hours.

Barracuda Spam Filter Temporarily Disabled

Due to some issues beginning last Friday (May 18, 2007), the Barracuda spam filter was removed from processing incoming mail for employees.org on Sunday.

ssh problem fixed.

 

OS Upgrade complete

 

Downtime March 10th - 10AM Pacific

Downtime: March 10th, 10AM Pacific for several hours.

Spam Filter is now enabled

 

RSS feed fixed

The RSS feed for Employees.Org's news has been fixed.

State of the Server report 2007

State of the Server report 2007

SSH Fixed

 

Phishing attacks at Employees.Org

 

New SSL Certificate for Web Server

 

New Certificate for IMAP/POP3 SSL access.

 

Webserver bandwidth limit

To avoid overstaying our welcome at our hosting facility, we have bandwidth limited the webserver on employees.org.

SpamAssassin upgraded to v3.0.3

 

new PERL modules installed

 

perl module: WWW::Mechanize

Installed WWW-Mechanize-1.02

MovableType users must upgrade to v3.14

 

MovableType comment attack.

 

IMAP users can now use SMTP relaying

 

Disk Quotas are now enforced.

 

New Login accounts available.

 

Java J2SDK installed.

 

NMH Installed

NMH, a new version of the MH mail client, has been installed.

WebIt is now Installed.

The "webit" program that is used to set group ownership and permissions on files and directories for web access has been installed.

Employees.org on SORBS blacklist.

 

Issues this morning; jabber down

 

Installed perl modules

 

Installed perl modules

 

Postfix SMTP server now supports SSL, STARTTLS, and SMTP AUTH