Who's affected

This notice affects all web developers maintaining sites on the shared hosting services.

Staring next week, all the users are also affected.

When

Monday october 20th at 13h.

What will happen

A new web server has been put online and has successfully passed a serie of internal tests. We now welcome all web developpers and other technically capable people to test the new webserver during the week.

Next monday, the new server will be added to the load balancing setup.

Why

The new server will ensure a better service continuity and a faster response.

How

When an outage will occur on a server, because of an overload or other, the second server will take over (the delay is currently set to 5 seconds). Even when not during an overload, both servers will share the load, greatly improving overall performance.

To test the new server immediatly, all interested testers should modify their "hosts" files by following the instructions in the page below:

https://wiki.koumbit.net/DnsWithHostsFile

The IP address of the new server is the following: 209.44.112.96

Please notify us of any anomaly at support@koumbit.org, mentionning that you believe the problem is related to the new server and your configuration below.

Other announcements

We want to profit from this announcement to emphasize on the release of AlternC 0.9.9, which fixes many bugs in the control panel and allows for deployment on multiple servers easily.

Additionnaly, note that the announcements sent to the mailing list are now marked with the language of the message. You can therefore filter the announcements you want to receive on the following page:

https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/options/hag-koumbit.org

I object!

If this intervention is too problematic for your or your organisation, please let us know within 24h to see if we can make other arrangements.