Sin Boards

To all club/society webmasters,

The clubs & societies server (ralph.nuigalway.ie) is scheduled to be
physically moved to the Computer Services data centre on Tuesday 19th May
between the hours 09:00 and 18:00. This will result in some website
downtime.

The reason for the move is three fold:

- Unreliable power supply in Aras na Mac Leinn due to the construction
works.
- Enhanced security.
- More reliable network connection.

This will allow us to deliver better up time, availability and security to
your websites.

*How will you be affected?*
Your website will be unavailable between the hours of 09:00 and 18:00 on
Tuesday 19th May. After this time you're website will be back online as
normal.

Can this please be moved to announcements and locked.

The server (Ralph) that hosts the SIN Boards and Gallery came back online at approx 19:30.

At the present moment, email being sent by the server is not being delivered immediately. This is due to a firewall issue and will be rectified first thing in the morning. All emails that are sent this evening are being queued and will be dispatched tomorrow as soon as this problem is resolved by Computer Services.

Thank you for your patience while the server was physically moved. The next period of downtime (5 hours) may be in August 2009 to facilitate security patches to be installed. You will be notified of such downtime at a later stage.