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Degraded internet access (resolved)

The OCF is currently experiencing degraded internet. We are investigating.

Update: This has been resolved since 4:34pm.

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Scheduled downtime Thursday night

We plan to perform maintenance on Thursday, January 21st around 9pm. All services will be unavailable during this time. Total downtime should be less than 20 minutes
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Username length limit raised to 16 characters

The maximum username length has been raised from 8 to 16 characters. Enjoy your longer usernames!

Note that some commands, such as ps and w, may truncate usernames longer than 8 characters or do other strange behaviors. If you have any scripts which use such commands or otherwise assume usernames are 8 characters or fewer, beware that they may have to be revised.

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Scheduled downtime Thursday night to fsck disks

Due to a flurry of I/O errors on one of our physical servers during a routine update tonight, we're scheduling downtime tomorrow (Thursday) night after 9pm to fsck all virtual servers.

The total downtime should be no more than an hour and will have rolling outages. Key services like web hosting will only be unavailable for maybe 15 minutes.

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Disk quota increased to 5 GB

Our Board of Directors approved an increase in disk quota from 2 GB to 5 GB, and it's now been implemented. Happy file storing!

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Scheduled downtime Saturday night

We plan to perform maintenance on Saturday, December 5th around 10pm. All services will be unavailable during this time. Total downtime should be less than 20 minutes.

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Unscheduled network downtime

As of 12:05am on 2015-11-14, the network is down unexpectedly. We are investigating.

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Downtime Monday night, Wednesday during day

There will be some downtime Monday night (after 9pm) possible into Tuesday morning for network maintenance in preparation for our move.

There will be additional downtime Wednesday during the day (no more than an hour) as we move servers from our current location (Hearst Gym) to our new location (MLK Student Union).