Beware of the hostmaster wielding vi and a quota stick. We are reducing the services that are offered through BigFatPipe. So far, the only service we have eliminated is GNU-oriented FTP and HTTP mirroring. Other services that are considered non-vital are being evaluated, and may be cut back. By reducing services which our core users and administrators do not make use of, it frees up our resources to be used on activities and programs which further develop and grow our system.
Net users can now check their e-mail using a web browser.
Just over a week ago the hard drive in the master operations server failed, taking the UDB and system backups with it. As a result, we lost all of the recorded information about account ownership, how to contact users in the event of a major system crisis, and custom system configurations. The good news is that because this data is only used to create configuration files, we did not lose any of the live system configurations. Account changes will take longer to process, since we must manually apply them to all of the servers. Our mail system now directly supports virtual aliases.