Actually, server uptime for April was 100% but it dropped briefly off the air twice during the month due to Denial of Service attacks on other servers that share our network infrastructure.

There was some reconfiguration done this month in order to improve server responsiveness, though this initially had the opposite effect as it put an unexpectedly high memory load on the server.  Over the course of about ten days, the new config was tweaked and a couple of problems were fixed.  Performance is now much improved.  There was the occasional loss of web site availability during this time but no more than about ten minutes over this period.

The server was also upgraded during this time and now has considerably more memory.  Some of the software that runs the web services was also upgraded.

Hopefully we’ll be back to our normal 100% uptime next month!

There were four occasions where a rogue process slowed the server to the point where it did not respond to pings in a suitable timeframe. There was one occasion when a misconfiguration resulted in web sites being unavailable for about ten minutes (yes, mea culpa). The server itself did not go down but availability is based on web site testing, so the server registered as down.

There were no issues.

There were numerous small service outages this month, mostly associated with an extended DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on a server that shares our network.

The Inveress server resides in a data centre that houses many other servers, and to some degree these servers rely on shared networking infrastructure. One of the other servers on the local network was attacked, resulting in a lot of traffic on the network. This affected access to servers other than the one being attacked, including ours, for a few minutes at a time on several occasions.

Aside from these brief outages, the Inveress server was unaffected.

There were no service issues this month.

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The only issue for October was a 25 minute period between 8:45am and 9:10am on 24 October when a network issue prevented traffic from reaching the server. Technically, the server itself never went down, however it was effectively unavailable during this period. The cause of the issue was unknown.

Services:
Web site development

The Brief:
The North Adelaide Baptist Church wanted a fresh, modern look for their new web site in order to connect with a younger audience. Multimedia was seen as an important part of the site: the minister was keen to build an archive of sermons in both text and audio formats.

The Solution:
To address the brief, Inveress designed a site that had a clean, modern feel. The colours used are those commonly used by the Church in other areas, particularly the .