Annual meeting report

Posted on Monday 30 January 2012, at 18:44 UTC

TuxFamily.org held its annual meeting on January 21st, 2012. We discussed our financial situation and needs and our future plans. For those who can read French, the report and the presentations are online.

New VHFFS panel!

Posted on Tuesday 24 January 2012, at 12:53 UTC

The user web interface of the hosting management software, known as the VHFFS panel, and some of the core code was almost entirely rewritten.

Enjoy!, and please report any bug found!

Network outage

Posted on Monday 16 January 2012, at 09:02 UTC

Due to a planned maintenance operation on the core routers of our hoster, we had a network outage on all our primary services this night from 2012-01-15 23:51 UTC to 2012-01-16 00:52 UTC. Everything is now back online.

Annual meeting

Posted on Monday 2 January 2012, at 21:26 UTC

TuxFamily annual meeting is going to take place the January 21st at the Electrolab.

More information available on the french news.

MySQL InnoDB corrupted

Posted on Sunday 23 October 2011, at 17:14 UTC

MySQL managed to corrupt its InnoDB database, we are trying to fix that now, meanwhile all MySQL databases are down.

Edit: We managed to dump all databases except one and to do a raw copy of all data. We are currently reimporting all databases from dump to a fresh InnoDB base.

Edit: Here we are, everything is back online, contact us if your database is not successfully back up.

Work on several servers this night

Posted on Saturday 1 October 2011, at 22:07 UTC

This night, we are going to clear hardware notice from our servers. One told us to replace its power supply, some need the CMOS/NVRAM battery to be replaced, and the one which hosted the VHFFS database need new hard drives.

Edit: Done!

Git User's Survey 2011

Posted on Monday 19 September 2011, at 18:11 UTC

Yup, sometimes there is news for something other than services outages!

We were kindly asked to announce that the Git User's Survey 2011 is now up!

Please devote a few minutes of your time to fill out the simple questionnaire; it'll help the Git community understand your needs, what you like about Git (and what you don't), and overall help us improve it.

The survey will be open from 5 September to 3 October 2011.

The results will be published at GitSurvey2011.

Oh wait!, kernel.org is down at the moment. Ok, it'll probably be back up at 3 October but we are talking again about a service outage there, what a mishap...

Partial power outage

Posted on Thursday 18 August 2011, at 13:58 UTC

In the early morning (05:02 UTC) we lost one of our power feeds. Luckily the only host impacted was the temporary VHFFS database host, which is now used due to the hard drives incident on the former host.

Everything is back online and impacted services were obviously Primary mail (smtp,pop,imap,webmail,mailing lists…), Primary DNS, and Jabber.

VHFFS Database crash

Posted on Thursday 14 July 2011, at 19:16 UTC

Oops!, our server hosting the VHFFS database lost all of its attached hard drives. We succeeded about fetching the latest data and moved the VHFFS database on a new host, everything is back online.

Impacted services : Primary mail (smtp,pop,imap,webmail,mailing lists…), Primary DNS, and Jabber.

Everything upgraded to Debian Squeeze

Posted on Monday 4 July 2011, at 22:34 UTC

Here we are, all services are now running Debian Squeeze.

As before, if anything goes wrong and if you... and only if you cannot manage to fix your stuff yourself, contact us.