End of an era. OP-EZY's in-house hosing decommissioned

OP-EZY has been online since November 2005, for many years we were hosting on site, on a very slow Internet connection. Though by use of a great concoction of caching and compression techniques, we were able to keep the sites hosted functional.

A couple of years back, we started branching out to using cloud hosting, as the sites starting getting more traffic. The in-house server was kept as a backup. We have since upgraded the cloud infrastructure further and felt in-house hosting was no longer a viable option.

OP-EZY is still dedicated to quality hosting, and the sites are still getting hundreds of hits a day. We are certainly not closing up shop.

I will close this status updated with a short video of the in-house server being decommissioned.

In-house hosting: 2005-2018

Planned maintenance (2014-09-07 14:00 UTC)

Maintenance is planned which will affect all sites on the OP-EZY Network.

Downtime is scheduled to begin on Sunday 7th September 2014 at 14:00 UTC and will continue to be in effect for 24-48 hours.

This site will remain online during the upgrade to keep you informed of the progress.

During the downtime, a holding page will be displayed directing users to this site for updates.

The following sites will be affected:

op-ezy.co.uk (and all subdomains - including King Size Films)
robertianhawdon.me.uk
jackstrade.com
pchsyearbook.org.uk
stjohnswhorlton.org.uk

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Cheers

Server relocation complete

The server is now in its new location and appears to be functioning correctly. Thankyou for your patience.

Windows Server configured, OP-EZY 100% online!

Today, we are finally glad to announce that we are all up and running properly again on both the Linux and Windows servers.

The last thing to be restored was the little website Robert Ian Hawdon made during the web development module of his Foundation Degree at Gateshead College.

Windows server has been installed

Happy new year from OP-EZY International. We've finally got our Windows server set up on our virtual machine server, and we'll be restoring the data that was on it within the next few days. But for now, here's that test page to show IIS working correctly:

Linux server seems to be operational.

Good news everyone!
The Linux virtual machine seems to be working correctly, restoring the majority of our services. Well still need to sort out the Windows server, but that only affects a very small portion of the site. Emails and files on the server before the fire have been restored.

Server fire!

Update 2012-12-27 14:44 GMT: We've just bought a new server, our most powerful server yet. This machine will sport two dual core Intel Xeon 3.0GHz processors, 8 gigabytes of RAM, and will be rack mountable. The idea will be to have the main Linux server and Windows server virtualized on this machine. Stay tuned for updates.

Update 2012-12-21 21:35 GMT: We're still looking into buying a new server. Or if it's more cost effective in the long run to repair the damaged components on the one we were using before. Because of the time of year, getting new parts quickly is rather difficult. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Update 2012-12-14 00:07 GMT: Testing the components of the server seems to indicate the fire in the PSU only took down the motherboard (which might be repairable with a bit of soldering to replace the blown capacitor) and one of the optical drives. I was unable to test the Floppy drive, and the obvious venting of the capacitor on the motherboard means I didn't even bother actually testing it as it's a fault that's clearly visible.

Update 2012-12-12 19:52 GMT: The power supply has been confirmed to be the point of failure, more information about the failure has been covered in my (Robert Ian Hawdon) blog: http://robertianhawdon.me.uk/2012/12/12/switched-hosting-and-server-fire/

Update 2012-12-12 00:41 GMT: Robert Ian Hawdon's blog is now on 000webhost and is running fine. The Windows server is showing a message to the root pages of all OP-EZY services explaining that the sites are offline and redirecting them to this page. The Windows sandbox is still online (as that server is unaffected)

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OP-EZY regrets to inform that once again all our services are offline. This was due to a fire which appears to have originated in the server's power supply.

Testing of the power supply seems to show no signs of life, but after extracting one of the hard drives from the machine, at least one drive seems to be powering up fine, and thankfully, no data has been lost.

It's going to take a few days to get another server built and online. So in the mean time, Robert Ian Hawdon's blog (formally known as Dave's blog @ OP-EZY) is moving to 000webhost, and the Windows server is going to be used to display a message across all affected OP-EZY sites.

OP-EZY, again, apologises for the inconvenience, and hope to be up and running again in the very near future.

Windows server is down

There is a known issue with the OP-EZY Windows server, sadly the administrator is on holiday (about 4600 miles away from the servers), so the service of that server will most likely not be restored until the 26th or 27th June. We are sorry for the inconvenience, but are fairly certain this shouldn't affect the operation of any of our services.
Cheers