Monthly Archives: September 2015

Scheduled: Website and Database Migrations

Web Applications, Web Server

Update 9:20am: The migration of the broadcast email system is complete. All systems should be restored.

Update 9:00am: The migration of www.emu.edu has completed. We’re still in the process of migrating databases for the broadcast email system.

On Saturday, September 19th between 8am and 9am we will be migrating the EMU website to a new web-server. During this time you may experience intermittent issues accessing the website.

In addition, several databases that provide services to the EMU website will be migrated to a new server. You may notice slight disruptions of the following services:

  • Broadcast Email system (all emails will be sent, but may be delayed slightly)
  • Limesurvey based surveys, including any Course Evaluation surveys
  • Machform based forms

Internet connection problems

Internet, Uncategorized

3:15pm: All systems are functioning normally. Further details are available below.
2:15pm: We’ve received reports of internet connection problems. Technicians are investigating.

Between 2:15pm and 3:15pm on Tue 1 Sep users on the Harrisonburg campus experienced problems connecting to web sites and services. These problems were intermittent and inconsistent, with some sites being available and others not.

We have traced the problem to anomalies in web traffic across our two internet connections. We are working with both internet service providers to further diagnose the problem and prevent its recurrence.