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Another web service update

14th May by werdz

Most of our web services have been restored. All Vhosts should now be back up, and all PHP pages and scripts that don't rely on MySQL should be working normally again. Pubcookie is still down, as there are unknown issues preventing it from functioning.

We're still having minor issues with the MySQL database server. We've found the cause of the problems and are working to fix it, it's just a bit awkward. Hopefully databases will be working again by the end of the day.

Please note, that our webserver is back on deathray for the time being, as murphy is experiencing severe stability issues, and we don't trust it to run production services at this point.

We're back

9th May by werdz

As you probably noticed, Redbrick went down for quite a while after a security breach. We've spent the last couple of weeks working to bring services back online, as they all had to be rebuilt from scratch. That's the bad news. The good news is that we brought basic login services back last week, and we just got the web server back online!

Login services

Minerva and Carbon are available for login, however we recommend that you stay on Minerva for the moment, as nothing's installed on carbon. there are still some programs missing from Minerva, we're working to restore them all as soon as we can.

Web services/Apache/Tomcat

Web services are slowly coming back. The main webserver is online again, but there are still a number of issues to work through before everything works. We're aware of many of the issues and working to fix them as soon as possible.

Tomcat is still offline.

Please note that web pages that use a MySQL database (this includes any WordPress installations) will not work yet. This is a known issue and we're working to resolve it.

Email

Email is online, as are all mailing lists. We were having minor issues with our IMAP server - If you have any more problems please hey or PM an admin.

Boards

The boards are online.

Chat (IRC)

Chat is online, and we've repeered with intersocs. There was a little fiddling with this the other night as we finalised some settings, but it should be stable enough from this point.

Bitlbee (MSN/Gtalk/AIM/etc via IRC)

Online. Email admins@redbrick.dcu.ie if you have problems.

Heys

Heys are working on Minerva.

Anyterm/Tunnel

Should both be working. Email admins@redbrick.dcu.ie if you have problems.

IPv6 connectivity

Our IPv6 tunnel is still offline. As well as users who would normally log in via IPv6, this affects users who accessedcertain services on machines outside of Redbrick without using the DCU proxy (for example, external POP servers). We'll be bringing this back up as soon as possible.

Databases

MySQL 5 has been installed on murphy, and all old MySQL databases have been imported into it. There may be issues using MySQL from web pages for a short time, as we need to apply a patch to fix a minor local issue. Also, advanced users should be aware that ISAM tables were converted to MyISAM to facilitate the upgrade to version 5.0.

PostgreSQL is online on murphy.

Redbrick wins Best Website at BICS!

20th April by werdz

RedBrick won the award for Best Website (Large College) at the national BICS awards last Thursday night! This is a reflection of the dedication of committees, webmasters and members of the webgroup to developing the website over the last number of years. A huge thank you goes out to all who were involved in bringing the site to where it is today. We'd also like to congratulate DCU Drama, who won Best Society (Large College), and DCU Style Soc, who won Best Event (Large College) for the DCU Fashion Show this year.

Vhost changes

After yesterday's downtime, we've made a number of changes under the hood to Murphy that should result in things generally going faster. Vhosts are now on our Sun T2000 (Murphy) along with the rest of our web services. There may be one or two minor issues with the new setup - if you're the owner of a vhost and you notice anything broken, please email admins (at) redbrick.dcu.ie and we'll see what we can do to fix it.

In addition to this, we've moved some things onto Murphy's local disks, which should take some of the strain off Minerva, resulting in a slight speed increase across all of our services.

RedBrick wins Best Website!

14th April by werdz

RedBrick came away successful at this years DCU Clubs and Societies awards, winning Best Website. This means we'll be representing DCU at the annual BICS awards ceremony in Dundalk this coming Thursday. A huge amount of effort has gone into the website of the past year, and we'd like to thank all who contributed to its design, construction and upkeep.

As well as RedBrick winning Best Website, RedBrick Chair Andrew Harford (receive) was also awarded First Five Individual.

Downtime

Murphy will be down for approximately two hours this coming Saturday (the 19th) to allow us to make changes that should improve the speed of the website and file access. The website will be affected, and anybody who runs their screen session on Murphy will have to start a new one. Downtime will start at 4PM.

Join RedBrick!

Redbrick is DCU's only neworking society. We provide features such as a limitless gallery for your pictures, a chat area to meet and keep in touch via the internet and many more such as free tutorials on many computer topics for our members and also needless to say, many a night out!

This year some of our major events include our very own Redbrick Freshers Ball, which is a huge hit every year and this year boasts a live band and console gaming with Games Soc, our Halloween Ball which is always frighteningly good, our main week, Tech Week, which was a huge sucess and a load of fun last year and of course our annual Table Quiz in semester two. Other events are organised all year round like cinema trips, drunken nights on the town and others such as paintball.

Come join the fun and join Redbrick!

Chat Online

Web Boards

Chat on the RedBrick Boards on the Web. This is one of our newest features, and still in testing, so we'd appreciate your feedback.

RedBrick Wiki

The wiki is the section of our website where articles are written by the members.

Committee Blog

The committee blog is where you can read more about what's going on in RedBrick, as well as post comments on what the committee are doing.

RedBrick Gallery

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Owner: tnkrbell

Go to the gallery to see photos uploaded by other RedBrick members.