Category: Status updates

We need to temporarily shut down mail.anu.net to perform essential maintenance on the filesystems. Apologies for the lack of notice and any inconvenience caused.

Update 23:15 GMT: Migration has been completed, after a slightly longer than estimated 37 minute data sync. All service checks are coming up green again.

21:45 GMT. In order to improve performance, we are going to migrate anuhosting.net to another server with faster CPUs. Since 15 February anuhosting.net has been running on backup hardware after the RAID array it was stored on failed. The migration will entail a short interruption to service, we expect around 20 minutes +- 10 minutes. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. We will start the migration at 22:15 GMT.

2016-02-19 17:55 GMT

As announced 2 weeks ago, we are performing an upgrade on our SpamTitan server. We are commencing work now and will update this blog when complete.

There will be a brief interruption to filtering of inbound mail, we expect this to last no more than 10 minutes.

Update 18:20 GMT: the disruption was less than 5 minutes, and mail is now flowing through the new server. We’ve had to make a few manual config tweaks that weren’t carried over automatically by the configuration export/import tool, but overall the process went fairly smoothly.

Update 18:30 GMT: we’ve tested and monitored log files for the past 20 minutes and everything is running smoothly. The old SpamTitan server is available at https://oldspamtitan.anu.net/, we’ll leave it running for 14 days (after which all quarantined mail will have expired) in case any customers need to log in and retrieve any false positives from it.