Mirror Service OS upgrade BEGIN

Ubuntu LTS OS Upgrade 20.04->22.04->24.04

We will today commence the upgrading of the OS of our Mirror server.

We currently run Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Which is soon to be EOL. And will upgrade the OS to 24.04 LTS during the day. Ahead of reaching the EOL date later in 2025.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused, thank you for your patience and continued support.

Mirror Service Disruption

Major hardware failure at dotsrc (resolved)

We are currently seing failure on one of our disk enclosures, meaning we have to take mirrors.dotsrc.org offline 😢. It is currently not clear how big the issue is, however, we might be offline for some time to diagnose and fix this issue. More info will be posted here. We are sorry for the inconvenience, and hope to be online again soon. Update 2025-04-23T09:30:00+02:00: We have restored service and all mirrors are back up. [Read More]

Donation from PROSA

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PROSA east and west made a generous donation towards new server equipment. We are truly grateful for this support, which will be used in a future upgrade to our network setup.

Service Disruption

Disk failure

We are experiencing a disk failure. Which are causing NGINX to return occasional 500 Internal Server Error codes.

We are aware of the issue and are working to procure a replacement harddrive.

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Service Downtime

Equipment relocation

The reason for the downtime is physical relocation of our equipment at the location of our hosting provider, Aalborg University Denmark. Our expectation is our infrastructure will be online again this evening. We do not yet have en exact estimate when the relocation will be completed. 2023-08-22 23:37 +02:00 update: We could not confirm uplink connectivity on our internet facing ports. There will be a delay until tomorrow (23 Aug 2023) before being possible to bring our servers online. [Read More]

Service Outage

ETA: Fixed

We are currently experiencing an unexpected outage across all mirrors, and are currently investigating.

Update 2022-07-27T12:30:00+02:00: We have identified and fixed the cause of the outage, service is now fully restored. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Power Outage

We are currently experiencing a power outage in Aalborg, and are therefore down. We are sorry for the inconvenience this causes and hope that power will be back soon.

Update: The outage has been resolved.