Last week, the server was down for a little over 24 hours. It's our first major outage for quite some time, but still - it was annoying. I finally got things back online at about 9pm Friday night, and we seem to be stable now. A list of the changes is below, plus details on the circumstances leading up to the problem.

Executive summary: Telstra sucks.

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I'm slowly doing up the whole Receptacle site, to make things a little more manageable, and so we can find things here. Shouldn't take too long.

If there's something missing that you need a pointer to, mail me and I'll sort you out.

The Receptacle is a collective group of people who want reliable and stable hosting for their personal web sites, email and any other little net-related projects they may want to play with at any given time. Each member pays a share in the costs of keeping a server running and connected and has access to whatever resouces they require. We use a "business" class plan for our server, so we don't have to worry about sudden port blocking or other restrictions that might be arbitrarily placed on us if we were using a residential service. We also get to bitch like hell if something breaks.