http://www.globalshellz.org/index.html/_/home/ Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:44:28 +0000 43200 Articles describing how to use the new Articles module of IP.Content http://www.globalshellz.org/index.html/_/home/frontpage/server-maintenance-r20
On EU we had 2 breakages that need maintenance. The CPU cooler started malfunctioning and needs to be replaced.
Also the gpu decided to die. So the downtime will also be used to replace that.

We decided to schedule the downtime for saturday 25 februari at 10 AM CET.

Hopefully it will be brief.

brabo.]]> Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:49:23 +0000 da4fb5c6e93e74d3df8527599fa62642 http://www.globalshellz.org/index.html/_/home/this-is-not-the-end-r19 http://darkholdings....allthefish.html In short, Zetas, who has not only been a kick-ass admin on Globalshellz, but who also supported us with many servers, has had to pull the plug. We all feel sorry for him.

What does this mean for Globalshellz? Well, atm it primarily means i have a shitton of work with moving all services to our last stronghold, our old EU server which is hosted by Notepad. All services will move to that one box.

This will also mean that resources are more scarce than they ever were, so we will be monitoring the load, and we might be forced to impose limits on cpu/mem usage later on.

I have also taken the decision to only allow IRC over ipv6 on old EU. We have to be realistic in the fact that we are piggy-backing on Notepad's home connection from now on.

As always, I am present on IRC if you have any questions/suggestions.

brabo.]]> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:15:59 +0000 07e1cd7dca89a1678042477183b7ac3f http://www.globalshellz.org/index.html/_/home/new-servers-expansion-and-more-r18

• Redundant LDAP Cluster
  • Loadbalanced LDAP cluster for redundant login availability and increased login speed
• New Dev Service and Servers
  • A new cluster of debian servers for development only, no IRC bots or bouncers allowed. Members that choose this service will be granted access to all programming languages/sdk's, a much larger quota, and more process allowed. Details will be on the wiki soon. Initially you will have to pick one or other (your existing gshellz server with irc or the new cluster with no irc bots or bouncers, though irc clients are allowed) but eventually we may allow senators to use both systems, stay tuned on that one.
• New dedicated server for US
  • The US server is the oldest server in our stable. It's an underpowered vmware slice sitting on my hardware in a colo in atlanta, but our new system is a dedicated box leased from Atlas Networks in Seattle, WA. The server stats will be up on the wiki soon. We hope to have all US members migrated to this server this weekend, we will launch early next week hopefully with minimal downtime.

Thanks,
Zetas]]> Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:09:06 +0000 5ef059938ba799aaa845e1c2e8a762bd http://www.globalshellz.org/index.html/_/home/mud-project-r17
For those interested in the MUD, there is a new subforum for all MUD-related talk: http://www.globalshe...g/forum/25-mud/
We also have a side-channel on freenode, #gshellz-mud. Feel free to join any time.

MUD server: mud.gshellz.org port 9997]]> Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:00:55 +0000 eb160de1de89d9058fcb0b968dbbbd68 http://www.globalshellz.org/index.html/_/home/downtime-r16
I know we initially planned on taking the US server down after the EU server was up and running but we would have had to put the US server in maintenance mode (no ssh logins) anyway to facilitate a full and accurate sync of data (cant have people writing to files as we copy them) and we figured we might as well kill two birds with one stone.]]> Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:11:30 +0000 c45147dee729311ef5b5c3003946c48f http://www.globalshellz.org/index.html/_/home/wiki-update-r15 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:32:28 +0000 2b44928ae11fb9384c4cf38708677c48 http://www.globalshellz.org/index.html/_/home/european-server-update-31111-r14 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:05:59 +0000 5fd0b37cd7dbbb00f97ba6ce92bf5add http://www.globalshellz.org/index.html/_/home/webmail-r13
That is all, dismissed.]]> Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:01:09 +0000 73278a4a86960eeb576a8fd4c9ec6997 http://www.globalshellz.org/index.html/_/home/frontpage/welcome-to-ipcontent-r9
It took some work on various templates and CSS files to bring this thing to life, but everything should be working fine by now. If you should, however, discover any glitches or errors feel free to leave thyri0n a notice to correct it.]]> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:51:04 +0000 1f0e3dad99908345f7439f8ffabdffc4 http://www.globalshellz.org/index.html/_/home/gshellz-service-r10
Join us in #globalshellz on the freenode irc network. Click the Chat button above to use the web client.
As of right now the following servers are available:

Europe: eu.gshellz.org
USA: us.gshellz.org

We aim to be the best damn shell service around, to all free members we provide the following:

• 100MB Storage Space
• Web Hosting (public_html with ~username access)
• GCC Access (on request)
• 2 BG Processes
• BNC/ZNC
• Eggdrop/SupyBot, etc
• Email Address (you@globalshellz.org/gshellz.org)
• Icecast Access
• 1 MySQL database with 2 user accounts.

]]> Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:42:31 +0000 5f93f983524def3dca464469d2cf9f3e http://www.globalshellz.org/index.html/_/home/new-european-server-r12
During the recent EU outage related to the owner moving it became clear we would need to seek alternatives. The original server was very graciously donated to our cause but, as the issues we've had with the increased capacity on the US server as an indicator, we have since grown large enough to require a more stable European presence.

I present to you all SR2, our newest server hosted in Amsterdam for us by Leaseweb. This baby boasts dual quad core xeon cpu's with 4gb of memory, enough for us to grow quite a bit before a hardware upgrade is required. The max latency to our other EU systems has capped around 40-50ms so it should be nice and snappy for our users. Even to the US it's little more than 100ms which is really the best you can expect when crossing oceans (and in some cases, atmospheres).

Brabo and I have been working diligently since the "keys" for the server we're handed to us late last week. We've finally got Debian Wheezy installed and running successfully with the grsec kernel and now all that's left is to install our package requirements and get it configured to be added to the rotation. We don't yet have an ETA on its availability due to the fact we are still waiting on Leaseweb for some minor networking setup related to ipv6.

For those of you on the US server (by choice) this means that when the EU server is up and running and available for everyone and has been stable for at least a week we will taking down the US server for upgrades. As you may have read, the EU server is running wheezy, this needs to be the case on US as well and we don't do dist upgrades without a reboot :) We estimate the upgrade and reboot should take no more than a few hours. The EU server will be available during that time for your use.

Please feel free to ask us any questions you may have in IRC or as a comment to this post.

Thanks,
Zetas]]> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:29:35 +0000 7f6ffaa6bb0b408017b62254211691b5 http://www.globalshellz.org/index.html/_/home/frontpage/migration-complete-r11 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:13:41 +0000 698d51a19d8a121ce581499d7b701668