Call for hardware sponsorship

 Posted on 2016-09-05  |  dotsrc staff

During the recent hardware upgrade, we used all our 4TB drives, so we call for sponsors of additional hard drives in order to keep running our services as optimally as possible. Specifically we need SATA 3.5" hard drives 4TB (or more) and preferably designed for 24/7 usage (e.g. the Western Digital SE/RE/Gold 4TB drive). Sponsoring either as funding or as hardware will of course add you to our list of proud sponsors. [Read More]

Upgrade on mirrors.dotsrc.org

 Posted on 2016-08-06  |  dotsrc staff

The server hosting mirrors.dotsrc.org has been upgraded with newer and faster hard drives. The software stack has also been updated, which includes a switch from using the Apache HTTP server to Nginx.

Online again

 Posted on 2014-04-28  |  dotsrc staff

Due to a damaged fibre between dotsrc and the DeIC POP about 100m away all our services, except our IRC-server which is hosted elsewhere, was unfortunately offline from 2014-04-26T19:52 until today at 15:56. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Sponsored equipment

 Posted on 2014-03-28  |  dotsrc staff

We have received some hardware that we will implement into our infrastructure:

Prevas has sponsored us with two 4 TB disks and Xena has sponsored us with four 4 TB disks, an IP KVM switch and a number of servers, which we will be using for virtualization, new backup server, firewalls and more.

We would like to thank Xena and Prevas for their support!

Hardware/Sponsor Request

 Posted on 2013-11-18  |  dotsrc staff

We need additional hard drives for some of our servers in order to keep running our services as optimally as possible. Specifically we need SATA 3.5" hard drives as large as possible and preferably designed for 24/7 usage. Sponsoring either as funding or as hardware will of course add you to our list of proud sponsors.

Stable connection again

 Posted on 2013-07-10  |  dotsrc staff

The issue at our ISP has been resolved and dotsrc has been running stable for the last six days.

Unstable connection

 Posted on 2013-07-02  |  dotsrc staff

Our ISP (DeIC, formerly known as "Forskningsnettet") is working at resolving the issue. This is related to the issues we saw last week. Right now it means that we have a cycle of 1-2 hours downtime followed by 1-2 hours uptime :-/

Further downtime and the news server

 Posted on 2013-06-28  |  dotsrc staff

For a few days we have had some unstability due to a faulty fibre connection at DeIC, however that whas resolved wednesday. But murphy is around. Our electrical installation failed thursday at 20:24 and dotsrc.org (except irc.dotsrc.org) was offline from then until friday at 13:30 where all services except news.dotsrc.org was brought online again. news.dotsrc.org will be brought online again monday but is unfortunately unavailable until monday. We are sorry for the poor uptime the past week and expect much better uptime in the time to come. [Read More]