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• Restoration of maximusconfessor.all2all.org finished

  The mail server maximusconfessor.all2all.org is now restored on a new hardware from backup.

  3rd of February  2023

• Restoration of crashed maximusconfessor.all2all.org

  The mail server maximusconfessor.all2all.org crashed because of a hardware problem. We are currently restoring the system from a backup.

  2nd of February  2023

• Planned Network Maintenance

  On 5-AUG-2022 there will be a Planned Network Maintenance affecting our connections at the Zaventem Datacenter. Please see here for the planning: Start time: 00:00 CEST 5-AUG-2022 End time: 04:00 CEST Expected Outage/Downtime: 45-60 minutes Location: Antwerp/Brussels/Rotterdam

  1st of August  2022

• moses.all2all.org mail server repaired and back online

  The crashed mail server moses.all2all.org has been restored on a new hardware. We still have to make some last reconfigurations but the essential mail routing works again and all users have again access to their mailboxes.

  13th of May  2022

• moses.all2all.org mail server down

  The mail server moses.all2all.org has crashed will be replace by a new hardware. We hope the interruption to be as short as possible. As we have to restore the server from backup this can take some more time. The crash has made unusable the hardware RAID.

  13th of May  2022

• PHP7.4 is now available

  PHP7.4 is now available

  We have just set up a new hosting server with PHP7.4. It runs under the latest Debian GNU/LInux 11. If you want to upgrade your PHP version get in contact with us, we can then migrate your account free of charge onto this new server.

  All new hostings will be installed by default with PHP7.4

  5th of December  2021

• Planned downtime router maintenance

  Date of work: 25-NOV-2021 Start time: 00:00 CET End time: 03:00 CET Place of work: Brussels Work description: Hardware upgrade on controller cards

  18th of November  2021

• mercury.all2all.org web server OK

  We have fixed the web server mercury.all2all.org, it's back online

  15th of October  2021

• UPDATE: mercury.all2all.org web server down

  Here is an update regarding the status of the mercury.all2all.org web server. Yesterday evening, we found on site that the server had a hardware problem, the RAID controller destroyed the volumes that were connected. This means that we have to restore the server from the last backup. We have already checked the backup and it dates from 10/14/2021 in the morning. The next steps consist in reinstalling the server by replacing the RAID controller and then launching the copy of the data of the sites and databases on this new installation. For an estimate of the return to normal, the sites should be put back on line during the weekend at the latest.

  15th of October  2021

• mercury.all2all.org web server down

  The web server mercury.all2all.org is down for inspection and to be repaired. We hope the interruption to be as short as possible. As we have to restore the server from backup this can take some more time. The crash has made unusable the hardware RAID.

  14th of October  2021

• charlesdarwin.all2all.org web server OK

  We have fixed the web server charlesdarwin.all2all.org

  14th of May  2021

• Unexpected works on charlesdarwin.all2all.org web server

  The web server charlesdarwin.all2all.org is down for inspection and to be repaired. We hope the interruption to be as short as possible

  14th of May  2021

• vonmuenchhausen.all2all.org mail server OK

  The mail server vonmuenchhausen.all2all.org has been successfully repaired.

  7th of May  2020

• Crashed vonmuenchhausen.all2all.org mail server repairs

  The mail server vonmuenchhausen.all2all.org crashed because of a hardware problem. We are currently repairing the system.

  7th of May  2020

• Coronavirus continuity plan, all services maintained and guaranteed 24/7

  The all2all team wishes you and your family all the best to master the current crisis. We are maintaining all services during the current coronavirus pandemy. All services are up and running and we are working and monitoring the whole network remotely like we always do. We also can physically reach the datacenter to correct any dysfonctioning which might happen. Our support service is like always reachable via mail support@all2all.org. Everything is under control.

  24th of March  2020

• Upgrade to php7.3

  Dear Users, to futher improve performance of our web servers, we plan a minor upgrade from php7.0 to php7.3. This upgrade will provide a better overall performance and will be carried out by in the next 4 weeks.

  22nd of October  2019

• Successful OS upgrade on web server mercury

  On Sunday we finished the announced upgrade of the webserver mercury.all2all.org. This intervention was normally planned much earlier but had been postponed due to some technical issues. The most important change is the switch to php7 because php5 is now end-of-life. Please check your websites to see if they work properly since the upgrade yesterday. If they don't, you might want to contact your webmaster to get an urgent upgrade of your web applications and plugins. This is also important to do on a regular basis from a security point of view. When your site has been upgraded recently, it will most likely work without problems. If there are problems and you don't have a webmaster we can put you in contact with one.

  21st of October  2019

• Delayed system OS upgrades on web servers jesus and mercury

  Dear users, we have been delayed in the latest upgrade but this weekend we will upgrade the webserver mercury. We will post a new news when we reschedule the upgrade on jesus. More infos concerning this upgrade, please see our recent mail from April or earlier news on this feed. The most important aspect of this upgrade is the change to PHP7. Please check prior to this intervention if your web-applications need an upgrade.

  17th of October  2019

• Scheduled system OS upgrades on web servers jesus and mercury (follow up 4), shiva and karlmarx successfully upgraded

  Dear users, in the next two weeks we will upgrade these webservers: jesus and mercury. More infos concerning this upgrade, please see our recent mail from April or earlier news on this feed. This weekend we successfully upgraded these web servers: shiva and karlmarx. The most important aspect of this upgrade is the change to PHP7. Please check prior to this intervention if your web-applications need an upgrade.

  4th of August  2019

• Scheduled system OS upgrades on web servers webservers karlmarx and shiva (follow up 3), charlesdarwin and desmondtutu successfully upgraded

  Dear users, the next week we will upgrade these webservers: karlmarx and shiva. More infos concerning this upgrade, please see our recent mail from April or earlier news on this feed. Last weekend we successfully upgraded these web servers charlesdarwin and desmondtutu. The most important aspect of this upgrade is the change to PHP7. Please check prior to this intervention if your web-applications need an upgrade.

  29th of July  2019

• Scheduled system OS upgrades on web servers charlesdarwin and desmondtutu (follow up 2), marcopolo and franzkafka successfully upgraded

  Dear users, the next week we will upgrade these webservers: charlesdarwin and desmondtutu. More infos concerning this upgrade, please see our recent mail from April or earlier news on this feed. Last weekend we successfully upgraded these web servers marcopolo and franzkafka. The most important aspect of this upgrade is the change to PHP7. Please check prior to this intervention if your web-applications need an upgrade.

  16th of July  2019

• Scheduled system OS upgrades on web servers (follow up)

  Dear users, the following weekend we will upgrade these webservers: franzkafka and marcopolo. More infos concerning this upgrade, please see our recent mail sent in April or earlier news on this feed. The most important aspect of this upgrade is the change to PHP7. Please check prior to this intervention if your web-applications need an upgrade.

  11th of July  2019

• OS upgrade on sigmundfreud.all2all.org finished

  We upgraded the operating system of the sigmundfreud.all2all.org web server. Please check if all your CMS and plugins are up to date.
  The upgrade has changed PHP to version 7, MySQL goes to version 10.1.37 in the form of MariaDB. The system kernel goes to version 4.9.

  18th of April  2019

• OS upgrade on martinlutherking.all2all.org and jesus.all2all.org finished

  We have upgraded the operating system on these web servers: 2019-04-13 (jesus) and 2019-04-14 (martinlutherking). Please check if all your CMS and plugins are up to date.
  The upgrade changed the version of PHP to 5.6. We can now configure and enable Let's Encrypt SSL for all websites as needed. We have also harmonized the Apache configuration with the latest servers.

  15th of April  2019

• OS upgrade on mohamed.all2all.org on 2019-04-06 ready

  We have set up an upgrade on the webserveur mohamed.all2all.org on 2019-04-06. Please check that all your CMS and plugins are up-to-date.
  The upgrade changed the PHP version to 5.6 and we can configure and activate Let's Encrypt SSL for all website now as needed.

  6th of April  2019

• Scheduled system OS upgrades on all older webservers

  Dear users, we always try to keep our operating systems the longest time possible to ensure your web applications a long life. Therefore we mainly use LTS (long-term-support) editions of Debian GNU/Linux. Recently the LTS support for Debian Wheezy has been stopped and we will therefore upgrade all older webservers in the next 3-4 weeks. This concerns the following webservers: jesus.all2all.org, mohamed.all2all.org and martinlutherking.all2all.org. We will step to the next LTS system and PHP will change to version 5.6. Parallelly we will also upgrade our more recent web servers from PHP 5.6 to PHP7, as PHP5 is becoming more and more obsolete. The first server which will be upgraded to PHP is sigmundfreud.all2all.org. This upgrade will be done next week. There might be some disturbance of the regular working due to reboots and other upgrade tasks but we hope to minimize the impact to your website. Please be aware that you might need to upgrade some of your webapplications once the OS upgrade has been performed.

  24th of March  2019

• marcopolo.all2all.org back online

  The web server marcopolo.all2all.org is now again online. Because of some unexpected complications the restore process took a little longer than expected.

  23rd of March  2019

• Security problem on marcopolo.all2all.org

  The web server marcopolo.all2all.org is currently taken offline because we check a security problem. We are currently repairing the system.

  22nd of March  2019

• carlosdisarli.all2all.org webserver back online

  The repair of raid system on carlosdisarli.all2all.org is now completed. In the end we had to roll back to a backup because most of the filesystem became corrupted. This was unexpected and time consuming

  21st of December  2018

• Restoration of crashed carlosdisarli.all2all.org

  The web server carlosdisarli.all2all.org crashed because of a hardware problem. We are currently repairing the system.

  20th of December  2018

• Planned network works, possible downtime

  Start time: 00:00 CET 17-NOV-2018
  End time: 06:00 CET 17-NOV-2018
  Work order number: NC840-145
  Order ID(s) impacted: 1-300150480
  Expected Outage/Downtime: 45-60 minutes
  Work description: Router OS security upgrade

  13th of November  2018

• Restoration of crashed maximusconfessor.all2all.org finished

  The mail server maximusconfessor.all2all.org is restaured on a new hardware from backup. We are currently fixing the last configuration differences.

  23rd of July  2018

• Restoration of crashed maximusconfessor.all2all.org

  The mail server maximusconfessor.all2all.org crashed because of a hardware problem. We are currently restoring the system from a backup.

  22nd of July  2018

• OS upgrade on mercury.all2all.org on 2018-05-22

  We have set up an upgrade on the webserveur mercury.all2all.org on 2018-05-22 . Please check that all your CMS and plugins are up-to-date.

  7th of May  2018

• Planned network works, possible downtime

  Start time: 00:00 CET 04.01.18
  End time: 06:00 CET 04.01.18
  Work order number: NC822-57
  Order ID(s) impacted: 1-300150480
  Expected Outage/Downtime: 45-60 minutes
  Work description: Router OS security upgrade

  29th of December  2017

• New hosting server ready with PHP7, MariaDB, Wordpress installer and Let's Encrypt SSL certs for all!

  PHP7 is now ready on our new shared webserver. Together with Let's Encrypt SSL certs for all, MariaDB and an automatic Wordpress installer. The whole on a top edge Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 2017 server platform with around 16 logical cores on which we installed the brand new Debian 9 Stretch OS! In the following weeks we will also upgrade all older webservers to PHP5.7 and enable Let's Encrypt.

  1st of September  2017

• Planned network works, possible outage risk

  Date of work: 12.08.17
  Start time: 00:00 CEST
  End time: 06:00 CEST
  Place of work: Brussels Datacenter
  Work description: Fiber cable audit works and mandatory cable relocation

  After the outage experienced in June, our fiber provider is taking the chance to audit our fiber cables during a mandatory cable relocation. They will cut the fibers one by one to ensure that no outage is caused to any building inside the ring. However, due to the nature of the works, there might be brief outages duuring the lenght of the maintenance window.

  The interruption to your service should not exceed "under risk" during 6 hours.

  2nd of August  2017

• Problem with the mail server vonmuenchhausen SOLVED

  We are experiencing a problem with the vonmuenchhausen mail server. We expect the system back to normal later today. More infos soon.

  25th of June  2017

• Last upgrades of older web servers to Debian Wheezy

  We have planned the following OS upgrades on some of our older shared web servers:

  18.4.2016: mohamed.all2all.org : DONE
  19.4.2016:martinlutherking.all2all.org : POSTPOSED TO 11.5.2017
  Start time: 18:00 CET
  End time: 00:00 CET
  Please check that your webapplications and plugins are up-to-date. Also if you have a long mysql username (i.e. long dns name) it might be truncated by the upgrade process
  The interruption to your service should not exceed 120 minutes.

  7th of April  2017

  read more about Last upgrades of older web servers to Debian Wheezy

• Problem with the web server karlmarx (Fixed)

  The server has been replaced by a new hardware, problems while importing the binary files of MySQL. Restoration took longer than expected. The databases are restored now.

  UPDATE: system restauration from backup currently underway

  We are experiencing a problem with the karlmarx web server. We expect the system back to normal later today. More infos soon.

  16th of February  2017

• Maintenance Completed Brussels Datacenter

  The maintenance work on our backbone at the Brussels datacenter is completed

  29th of January  2017

• Planned network outage Sunday 2017-01-29

  We received a note concerning planned network works at our Brussels Datacenter and a short outage on Sunday morning:
  Start time: 00:00 CET 29.01.17
  End time: 07:00 CET 29.01.17
  Expected Outage/Downtime: 45-60 minutes

  25th of January  2017

• Problem with moses mail server (Fixed)

  We are currently restarting Moses.

  9th of January  2017

• Problem solved with web the karlmarx server

  Karlmarx server up and running again.

  14th of October  2016

• Problem with web the karlmarx server

  We are experiencing a problem with the karlmarx server. We expect the system back to normal later today. More infos soon.

  14th of October  2016

• New reliable dedicated servers

  We have updated our reliable dedicated server offer, the material is now composed as follows: Xeon E3-1225v5 processor «80W» Quadcore HT 4 x 4 x 3.70Ghz, 2 x 2 TB HD (HGST 2TB Ultrastar 7K6000 6Gb SATA 24/7) and 32 GB RAM. As always with Debian Jessie 8.5 and Linux software RAID1 (mirroring). Order here: http://all2all.org/web-hostings/dedicated/recommended/

  13th of September  2016

• Problem with web the lumumba server solved

  The lumumba server has been restored from backup. It's back online.

  2nd of July  2016

• Problem with web the lumumba server solved

  The lumumba server has been restored from backup. It's back online.

  2nd of July  2016

• Problem with web the lumumba server

  We are experiencing a problem with the lumumba server. We expect the system back to normal later today.

  1st of July  2016

• DDOS attack this morning, server staging.all2all.org renumbered

  This morning we suffered from a DDOS attack which paralysed most of your network. We then isolated the targeted IP address on our network and put it on the BGP blackhole list to defeat the DDOS. At around 11:00 the network was back to normal and we registered a total of around 1.5-2 hours of downtime. As a result the server staging.all2all.org was still down after the DDOS was finished because we had to renumber its IP addresse from 79.99.200.33 to 79.99.200.35 as the DDOS was targeted on that former IP address. If you use an external DNS server you will need to modify it with the new IP address of the staging server!

  16th of February  2016

• New shared webservers with Debian Jessy 8 and PHP 5.6.17

  New shared webservers with Debian Jessy 8 and PHP 5.6.17 are now available. All older shared webservers are still with Debian Wheezy to guarantee the long term support for your existing web applications!

  7th of February  2016

• Spam problem and resulting blacklisting of maximusconfessor

  Today we discovered a compromised mail user account on our mail server maximusconfessor.all2all.org with several thousand spam mails in the queue. The issue is solved but we still have to work on the unlisting from the blacklists.

  15th of December  2015

• Problem with web server jesus solved, complete hardware replaced

  Today the web server jesus.all2all.org had to be rebooted but didn't come up again. It had been online non-stop for around 2 years without any reboot. During the reboot, there wasn't any reaction anymore. We therefore had to take the hardware to the workplace and we decided to change the whole server hardware, just keeping the hard disks with the data. At around 15.30 we had the server back online, now with more RAM and 2 more powerful processors. We hope that this hardware upgrade will also take care of the minor issues the server had the last time.

  22nd of July  2015

• Problem with web server charlesdarwin solved, RESTORATION COMPLET

  Incident report "charlesdarwin": During the scheduled upgrade we encountered a strange issue with the innodb engine of MySQL. Later we also recognised that the data directory received strange permissions during the OS upgrade and no matter how hard we tried this made the deployment of the database impossible. We concluded that there must have been a corruption. We decided at a certain point to stop the repair efforts and to make a complete restoration of the server from backup using a mint Debian Wheezy installer. Now we are shure that the OS is clean and safe. Sorry for the unforseen complications.

  18th of May  2015

• Problem with web server charlesdarwin

  We are currently restoring the server from backup. There has been an issue during the OS upgrade. We expect the system back to normal later today.

  18th of May  2015

• Upgrades to Debian Wheezy

  We have planned the following OS upgrades on our shared web servers:

  14.5.2015: charlesdarwin.all2all.org and shiva.all2all.org
  29.5.2015: karlmarx.all2all.org and desmondtutu.all2all.org
  Start time: 18:00 CET
  End time: 00:00 CET
  Please check that your webapplications and plugins are up-to-date. Also if you have a long mysql username (i.e. long dns name) it might be truncated by the upgrade process
  The interruption to your service should not exceed 120 minutes.

  5th of May  2015

  read more about Upgrades to Debian Wheezy

• Planned network outage

  Our uplink provider Cogent is doing a planned network upgrade and there will be a downtime according to this schema:

  Network interruption according to the following maintenance window:
  Date of work: 29.01.15
  Start time: 00:00 CET
  End time: 07:00 CET
  Place of work: Brussels
  Work description:Hot replacement of core device
  The interruption to your service should not exceed 240 minutes.

  19th of January  2015

• Good news for dedicated servers still under Debian Squeeze

  All dedicated servers which are still running under Debian Squeeze, the old stable version of Debian, have been switched and upgraded to Squeeze LTS (long time support). This ensures that they will get the essential security upgrades until February 2016!. More infos here: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

  28th of September  2014

• Shellshock vulnerability fixed

  We have upgraded all Bash packages on our servers to close the Shellshock vulnerability. Please do an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade when you run a self-managed dedicated server. If you are still running a Debian Squeeze OS, add the LTS support to your /etc/apt/source.lists file: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze-lts main non-free contrib and then run the apt-get command for the upgrade.

  27th of September  2014

• Upgrade hosting servers to Debian Wheezy 7.0

  Starting with the 1st of October we will process with the upgrade of all shared hosting servers to the new Debian Wheezy version. The PHP version will change to 5.4.4. MySQL changes to version 5.5.38. Please see here for further infos: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/index.en.html

  19th of August  2014

• IP addresses modification on certain servers

  In order to improve the bandwidth supply of some servers located in a former segment all2all network, we will place them in a "carrier neutral" data center which is better connected. This also means that they will receive a new IP address. There will be no problem if the DNS domain name is managed by our internal DNS servers. No problem either for SSL certificates. But be careful if you use an external DNS server and point the name of the IP address. The 62.58.108.0/24 range will be stopped and returned to Ripe on the 19/05/2013.If you are in this case, please contact us to get the new IP address of your server.

  6th of May  2013

• Problem with the connections in the Zaventem Datacenter solved

  vSince sunday afternoon we have had a routing problem in the Zaventem datacenter. Connections can drop and hosts be inaccessible. We have solved the issue.

  22nd of April  2013

• Problem with the connections in the Nossegem Datacenter solved

  There has been a denial of service attack since the early morning starting at around 6 am on the 62.58.108.0 network segment. The issue has been tracked down and it is solved now. Everything is back to normal.

  12th of January  2013

• Problem with the connections in the Nossegem Datacenter

  This evening we have had a problem in the Nossegem datacenter. This affects most of our mutualized servers there. We are working on it. A solution will be provided during this morning.

  12th of January  2013

• Replacement of server hardware sigmundfreud.all2all.org

  This evening we have replaced the hardware of the shared hosting server sigmundfreud. The system has caused too much problems. The new system is running much faster and more reliable.

  24th of December  2012

• The server martinlutherking is back online

  Our martinlutherking.all2all.org server went back online yesterday at 5:28 pm.

  21st of July  2012

• New shared hosting server with Debian Squeeze 6.0

  All new web sites will now be installed on our new shared hosting server running under the new Debian Squeeze version. The PHP version is 5.3.3. MySQL is now at version 5.1.61. Please see here for further infos for other packages: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/index.en.html. We also simplified the rights management of php generated files which are no longer owned by www-data but directly by the site user. Htaccess files are now active by default on your all2all web hosting. This greatly improves the installation of all CMS and web applications.

  25th of April  2012

• Upgrade of servers to Debian Squeeze 6.0

  Starting with the 21st of May we will process with the upgrade of all shared hosting servers to the new Debian Squeeze version. The PHP version will change to 5.3.3. MySQL changes to version 5.1.61. Please see here for further infos: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/index.en.html

  25th of April  2012

• Solved : acces problem via Telenet

  It seems that there is at the moment an interconnection problem between our servers and the Telenet network. We are in contact with our bandwidth providers in order to find solution.

  30th of January  2012

• Increase of the hard drive prices

  Following the current shortage of hard drives on the market, we must face a brutal increase in the purchase cost of this component which does not enable us to maintain the price of our dedicated servers at the same level. During the coming months we will thus ask for a supplement of 80 euros per SATA disc of 1TB until the production goes back to its normal course. This carries the price of the simple dedicated server 1HD to 379 euros and the recommended dedicated server 2HD's to 759 euros.

  19th of November  2011

• Solved : Electrical problem in the Zaventem datacenter

  An electrical interruption of the city power caused a rupture of a circuit in our Zaventem datacenter this morning at 7:52 am. That's why some of the servers on this part of the network were not accessible early this morning. The power feed is now restored and all the services are back on-line since 9:10 am.

  10th of November  2011

• Maintenance works on alanturing.all2all.org tonight after 0:00h

  We have to make a filesystem check on alanturing.all2all.org. The virtual servers on this host system will be unavailable during these works.

  25th of October  2011

• 599€ for a Quadcore HT 3.2Ghz Xeon E3 dedicated server

  We renew our Green 2HD dedicated servers in promotion. We now offer an Intel Xeon E3-1230 Quadcore HT 4 x 2 x 3.2Ghz with 8GB of DDR3 1333Mhz Ram and 2 Western Digital hard drives of 1000GB at a purchase price of 599€. The hosting fee is 75€/month.

  20th of May  2011

• 299€ for a Dualcore HT 1.8Ghz dedicated server

  We sell dedicated servers Extra Green 1HD starting from 299€ vat excl. It's an Intel Atom D525 Dualcore HT 1.8Ghz (= 4 X 1.8Ghz) equipped with 4GB of DDR3 Ram and one Western Digital hard drive of 1000GB. The installation and assembly costs are offered to all new customers. The monthly fee is only 45€ for a hosting contract of one year.

  11th of April  2011

• New Red5 Media Server for live AV streaming (web-TV)

  We installed a new media server with Red5 Media Server. Red5 is an Open Source Flash Server written in Java that supports:

  - Streaming Video (FLV, F4V, MP4)
  - Streaming Audio (MP3, F4A, M4A)
  - Recording Client Streams (FLV only)
  - Shared Objects
  - Live Stream Publishing
  - Remoting
  - Protocols: RTMP, RTMPT, RTMPS, and RTMPE

  This new server is ready to host your web-TV live events. It complets our streaming server infrastructure which consists already of an Iceast Audio Server (for web-radios).

  14th of March  2011

• Planned maintenance on 28.02.11

  Due to some maintenance works concerning network segment 79.99.200.0/23 early on monday 28.02.11, a downtime of 45 minutes is expected in morning hours between 1:00 and 4:00 CET

  23rd of February  2011

• Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" released

  After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name "Squeeze").

  This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as: Linux 2.6.32, Apache 2.2.16, MySQL 5.1.49, PostgreSQL 8.4.6, PHP 5.3.3, Perl 5.10.1, Xen Hypervisor 4.0.1 (dom0 as well as domU support). Support has also been added for the ext4 and Btrfs filesystems. We install now on all new all2all servers Debian 6.0 "Squeeze".

  8th of February  2011

• all2all is official sponsor of the Drupal Developer Days 2011

  all2all is sponsoring the Drupal Developer Days Brussels 2011 that will take place the 4th, 5th and 6th of February on the VUB campus : Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Ixelles. Drupal is an open-source content management system which allows you to build everything from personal blogs to enterprise applications. Thousands of add-on modules and designs let you build any site you can imagine. Please see the Drupal site for more info: http://drupal.org/. Drupal is free, flexible, robust and constantly being improved by hundreds of thousands of passionate people from all over the world.

  Drupal can be easily installed on your all2all web hosting, please see our Drupal installation manual here (in french and dutch).

  28th of January  2011

• GNU/Linux System Administrator - job offer

  Moving Art Studio has a job opportunity for a new Linux System Administrator to join the support-team.

  Gezocht:
  GNU/Linux System Administrator (m/v)
  
  Regio:
  Brussel (Anderlecht)
  
  Sector:
  Telecom, ICT & Internet
  
  Bedrijfsomschrijving:
  Het onafhankelijke netwerk http://www.all2all.net/ is een initiatief van de vereniging zonder winstoogmerk Moving Art Studio. Zoals zijn naam het aangeeft, wil het all2all-project communicatie bevorderen op basis van wederkerigheid, van iedereen naar iedereen. Om dit te verwezenlijken ontwikkelt all2all, uitsluitend op basis van vrije en open source-software, een onafhankelijk internetnetwerk met een hoge veiligheidsfactor dat niet onderworpen is aan commerciële druk en financieel volledig onafhankelijk is.
  
  Functiebeschrijving:
  U levert ondersteuning en bent verantwoordelijk voor de functionering van servers in onze datacenters. U hebt de nodige technische bagage om hardware en software voor servers in een netwerkomgeving te ondersteunen. Met uw kennis van Linux, Apache en SSH, U kan deze toestellen van afstand beheren. U hebt ervaring met TCP/IP netwerken, scripttalen, IMAP, POP3 en SMTP e-mail-servers. U zorgt ervoor dat de dienstverlening van onze klanten vrijwel continu kan doorlopen door snel te reageren op support-aanvragen en correcte maatregelen te nemen. U hebt zeer goede relationele en communicatieve vaardigheden (zowel telefonisch als geschreven). U werkt voornamelijk in Brussel (Anderlecht).
  
  Profiel:
  U bent Nederlandstalig en u hebt een hogere opleiding gevolgd. U bent in staat vlot te communiceren in het Nederlands, Engels en Frans. U beheerst de volgende software:
  
  - GNU/Linux (kennis op niveau van LPIC-1)
  - Apache
  - Webmin
  - SQL databanken (MySQL, PostgreSQL, ...)
  - PHP, Python, Perl scripttalen
  - Postfix, Courier, Mailman
  - Kennis van BGP, RIP of OSFP is een pluspunt
  
  U bent communicatief, klantgericht en werkt graag in teamverband. U bent een nauwkeurige geest met gevoel voor organisatie en planning.
  
  Aanbod:
  Wij stellen een gevarieerd en motiverend werk voor dat in het bijzonder personen zal interesseren die aangetrokken zijn door de ethiek van vrije software. Een contract van onbepaalde duur, voltijds. Het loon valt te bespreken op basis van de ervaring.
  
  Interesse:
  We ontvangen graag uw kandidatuur via de post of via e-mail :
  
  Onze contactgegevens:
  Moving Art Studio v.z.w.
  T.a.v.: Frédéric Jadoul
  Onderwijsstraat 51
  1070 Anderlecht
  

  20th of December  2010

• New all2all web hosting offers and concepts

  all2all offers new shared web hosting plans with more resources for all users. All prices remain unchanged and do not increase!

  simple shared web hosting disk quota of 10GB (50MB Web - 3GB Mail - 6GB Backup) for 20 €/an

  recommended shared web hosting disk quota of 100GB (10GB Web - 30GB Mail - 60GB Backup) for 60 €/an

  large shared web hosting disk quota of 1000GB (100GB Web - 300GB Mail - 600GB Backup) for 120 €/an

  With these new offers all2all is one of the most affordable web hosting providers. For more details please see our comparison table here: Technical comparison of shared web hosting plans. Or see the individual pages corresponding to each hosting offer for details. You get for instance with the large web hosting now 100 mailboxes. For each hosting plan the basic mail disk quota is increased to 3GB!

  All shared servers are manageable via the web administration interface Webmin. The Virtualmin module offers you a complete, easy and intuitive management access to your hosting account. We have updated the Webmin-Virtualmin installations on all shared servers and we have reedited the manuals in our documentation section on our site.

  We also developed a new backup system and every shared web hosting plan includes now a sufficiently large disk quota for daily backups. We keep now 1 month of backups of all your data: databases, files in the web directory and mailboxes. There will be no supplementary costs for you (everything is included). The detailed information about our new backup system can be found here: http://all2all.org/informations/faq/backup/how-works-the-backup/

  all2all has now also a Facebook page and a Twitter account. The Facebook page is intended as a relay for the news section on our website and to post summaries of articles which will appear on our future blog. The Twitter account will serve as a central communication platform to announce incidents, planned works, problems, short news, etc. So please connect to our Facebook page and /or Twitter acount.

  16th of September  2010

• Green electricity in all our datacenters

  The 3 datacenters in which all2all has installed its equipment are now supplied with green electricity. You can check the sustainable energy certificates (100% renewable sources) here: LCL , AXS and KPN.

  14th of September  2010

• Cambio subscription instead of company cars

  All all2all employees are now subscribed to Cambio. The Cambio system is a model of car rental where people rent cars for short periods of time, allowing participants – following the idea of carsharing – to abondon their own car. The Cambio cars can be ordered by phone or over the internet non-stop. So instead of a company car, we decided to go for the ecological alternative of carsharing. We can now precisely choose the type of car that we need according to the requirements of our interventions. Next to Cambio, we also use the bicycle and public transport and try to reduce the use of cars as much as possible.

  6th of September  2010

• New Roundcube webmail installed

  A couple of weeks ago all2all implemented the new Roundcube webmail for the mail users of his shared hosting servers. Roundcube is a browser-based, multi-lingual email program. It is free Software and published under the GNU GPL. All IMAP-functions are integrated: adressbook, directory administration, mail search, spell checking and uploads, etc. More information can be found here: http://roundcube.net/. Depending on the mailserver that hosts your mailboxes, you can connect through one of the following SSL-secured addresses:

  Server Maximusconfessor: https://maximusconfessor.all2all.org/webmail/
  Server Vonmuenchhausen: https://vonmuenchhausen.all2all.org/webmail/

  6th of September  2010

• Upgrade of our last shared hosting servers to Debian Lenny 5.0 and PHP5 successfully finished

  The migration towards Debian/Lenny 5.0 and PHP5 is now finished for all all2all servers.

  1st of September  2010

• Last 3 shared hosting servers Debian Lenny 5.0 and PHP5 upgrade postponed to weekend 6th and 7th of March

  The migration process to Debian/Lenny and PHP5 has been carried out for the more recent servers sigmundfreud.all2all.org and desmondtutu.all2all.org. The remaining servers, jesus.all2all.org, mohamed.all2all.org and martinlutherking.all2all.org, are scheduled for a later upgrade in 2 weeks time on the weekend of 6th and 7th of March 2010. This provides you with a longer preparation window. Please have your websites PHP5-proof by then. If you don't have the skill to carry out your website upgrades, please ask your webmaster to do so.

  17th of February  2010

• Reminder: Imminent upgrade of shared hosting servers to Debian Lenny 5.0 and abandonment of PHP4 for PHP5

  Starting from February 15th, the support team of all2all-Moving Art Studio will carry out the migration towards Debian Lenny of all the shared hosting servers which are still running under Debian Etch or Sarge. The principal constraint of this passage to a higher version of the system is the abandonment of the maintenance of the packages of PHP4 and the obligation to pass to PHP5 which will be the only version of PHP from now on available. Please check your sites and prepare for PHP5 compatibility if necessary.

  12th of February  2010

• End of the support for Debian Etch 4.0 starting from February 15th, 2010. Obligatory migration towards Debian Lenny 5.0 and abandonment of PHP4 for PHP5

  The support team of Debian informs us that there will be no more safety updates for Debian Etch 4.0 starting from February 15th. Consequently, the support team of all2all-Moving Art Studio will carry out the migration towards Debian Lenny of all the servers which are still running under Debian Etch by February 15th. The principal constraint of this passage to a higher version of the system is the abandonment of the maintenance of the packages of PHP4 and the obligation to pass to PHP5 which will be the only version of PHP from now on available.

  29th of January  2010

• Installation of a fiberoptic ring between our 3 datacenters

  All2all installs its server racks in three data centers located around Brussels : in Nossegem, Diegem and Zaventem. We have just set up a fiberoptic ring to connect these three centers with an intern circuit of 10Gbps. This new development makes it possible to synchronize servers located at different places, to ensure high speed backup copies from one datacenter to another and to offer alternative connections towards the Internet in the event of a band-width shortage in one of the co-location area.

  28th of January  2010

• Shared web server lumumba.all2all.org: restored

  The shared web server lumumba.all2all.org has been restored from backup.

  8th of January  2010

• New short manual about automatically executing PHP scripts via cron

  We have written a mini manual for those who want to be able to automatically hit a PHP script, on a scheduled date and time, using the cron module in Virtualmin and the wget command. This can be necessary for instance for certain administrative tasks required by your CMS.

  Mini manual about automatically executing a PHP script with cron and wget

  3rd of November  2009

• Attention, iframe virus may attack your web sites!

  Recently we have seen a surge in the number of automated attacks against websites. These attacks are aimed at infecting the end user's PC with a Trojan virus that subsequently attacks sites via FTP and injects malicious iframes into your webpages

  We have written a mini manual that describes how to remove the virus and how to clean your webpages: Mini howto - Removing an iframe virus

  20th of October  2009

• all2all chooses RAID6 for more security

  all2all has chosen RAID6 as storage solution for all its new shared servers, following the problem encountered with our mail server maximusconfessor due to the failure of two consecutive drives in a RAID5 cluster. RAID6 is a technology that guarantees the security of information stored by allocating several hard drives redundantly. Unlike RAID5, RAID6 allows the simultaneous failure of two hard drives without compromising data. To know the technical details of the implementation of RAID 6, we recommend the excellent article by Peter Anvin available here, and an introduction to the various RAID technologies, see the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Redundant_array_of_independent_disks

  1st of june  2009

• New ecological charter for all2all

  

  To reflect in our principles the awareness of our users and employees about environmental issues, we decided to adjust our charter. Our activity is not neutral from an ecological standpoint, nonetheless we think that giving you the technical means to express and share your ideas to the rest of the world justifies the energy invested. We have therefore included a paragraph defining a clear course that we are committed to respect, to continue our role in minimizing our impact on the environment. The charter is available online here.

  1st of june  2009

• Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released

  The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed "Lenny") after 22 months of constant development (14.2.2009). Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of twelve processor architectures.

  The availability and updates of OpenJDK, GNU Java compiler, GNU Java bytecode interpreter, Classpath and other free versions of Sun's Java technology, into Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 allow us to ship Java-based applications in Debian's "main" repository.

  Further improvements in system security include the installation of available security updates before the first reboot by the Debian Installer, the reduction of setuid root binaries and open ports in the standard installation, and the use of GCC hardening features in the builds of several security-critical packages. Various applications have specific improvements, too. PHP for example is now built with the Suhosin hardening patch.

  For non-native English speaking users the package management systems now support translated package descriptions and will automatically show the description of a package in the native language of the user, if available.

  All new all2all servers are now installed with Debian Lenny. We will soon start to upgrade the older servers.

  1st of April  2009

• Improved hosting backup procedure

  We installed a new backup procedure for all shared all2all hostings based on Rsnapshot and a extensible RAID file server, a modern D2D backup system. We keep now full backup copies of the last 7 days. Every 7th day is saved 4 times per month. The MySQL database backups are based on a 31 days rotation, everyday a full backup. This new system considerably improves the safety of your hosting data. All backup processes are run in the early morning when load is very low and the servers are idle.

  The term "disk-to-disk", or "D2D", generally refers to disk-to-disk backup. With D2D, a computer hard disk is backed up to another hard disk rather than to a tape or floppy, like in traditonal backupsystems. Typical advantages of disk-to-disk are: the non-linear recovery of data, enabling a specific file to be restored quicker and simpler than with tape. Higher speed and higher capacity, relative to tape or floppy, resulting in shorter backup and recovery windows.

  29th of November  2008

• "Freedom not fear 2008"

  A broad movement of campaigners and organizations is calling on everybody to join action against excessive surveillance by governments and businesses. On 11 October 2008, concerned people in many countries will take to the streets, the motto being "Freedom not fear 2008". Peaceful and creative action, from protest marches to parties, will take place in many capital cities. For more info, see : freedom-not-fear.eu or humanrights21.org

  At this occasion, all2all join other alternative hosters to publish the following declaration:

  "We want to stop Data Retention of the type that is being imposed on us by the E.U. Directive 2006/24/EC because it is a preemptive surveillance of communication structures.

  Imagine the postal services kept a record of everyone who sent a mail to you. When. Who. How. Where... This is exactly what is happening now – with your email, your phone calls and other electronic communications.

  We as providers are forced to store YOUR communication metadata – this is forcing us to work as outsourced police forces. We don’t want this. We will pour as much sand into this machine of suspicion as we possibly can. And we encourage everyone else to do the same! Do not support this attack on privacy!

  We will continue to fight against Data Retention in any way possible and we will support each other in our different efforts to fight it."

  Signed by:

  aktivix.org - all2all.be - alterezo.be - blacksec.org - blogxpopuli.org - boum.org - cassiopea.org - domainepublic.net - effraie.org - espace4you.org - free.de - globenet.org - hacklab.dk - herbesfolles.org - immerda.ch - lautre.net - linefeed.org - moviments.net - mutins.net - nadir.org - no-log.org - nodo50.org - open-web.fr - poivron.org - puscii.nl - rezo.net - riseup.net - samizdat.net - so36.net - squat.net - systemausfall.org - systemli.org - tachanka.org

  11th of October  2008

• Important Security Updates of your Joomla, Drupal, WordPress and SPIP CMS!

  Since a while, important security issues concerning CMS web applications have been detected. In order to prevent security leaks or your website being hacked, we strongly recommend that you keep your cms and components up-to-date.

  Concerning Joomla, you can find here a list of vulnerable extensions and addons : http://docs.joomla.org/Vulnerable_Extensions_List

  And there you can follow the latest Security Releases, discussions and tricks about Joomla's Security. And don't forget to check out the Joomla Administrator's Security Checklist

  On this website http://drupal.org/security, you can take a look on the latest security announcements concerning Drupal.

  Here for Wordpress http://wordpress.org/development/category/security

  And here for SPIP http://www.spip.net/en_rubrique247.html

  24th of September  2008

• Upgrade of Debian Sarge shared servers

  We will operate a system upgrade on all our older shared servers from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch. This affects all servers which have not been upgraded yet. The major change concerns Mysql (from version 4.0.24 to 5.0.32). The PHP upgrade will not be so important (from version 4.3.10 to 4.4.4). The upgrade will take place on the 33rd weekend (between the 15th and 17th of August).

  5th of August  2008

• all2all at the Journées du libre

  all2all is present at the Days of free software organised by the BxLUG on friday the 6th and saturday the 7th of june at the House of Cultures of Saint-Gilles (120 rue de Belgrade).

  Eleni Postantzi will give a mini-conference on the use of Kolab as an Exchange Killer (friday the 6th between 3 and 4 o'clock).

  6th of June  2008

• Two new special dedicated server offers: server purchase for only 540 € and 720 €

  For the cost of a conventional server renting plan, all2all sells two new dedicated Intel 64bits server models. An entry class Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2160 1.8Ghz 64bits server system with a 250GB hard disk and 1GB RAM - and a professional offer, an Intel Core2Duo E4600 64bits 2 x 2.4 GHz system, with two 250GB hard disks configured as a software RAID1 array and 2GB RAM. All our other server systems are build-to-order offers, according to your needs, either with Intel or AMD CPUs.

  31st of March  2008

• Upgrade to newest version of Webmin-Virtualmin

  We have upgraded all our shared servers with the newest versions of Webmin (1.400) and Virtualmin GPL. The outstanding new features: easy creation of additional website ftp users, creation of additional admin users and improved backup options. The complete list of changes can be consulted here: http://www.webmin.com/vchanges.html. We also have changed the theme to the better structured and more intuitive Virtualmin-Theme. The former theme Stressfree is still available as an option: "Change Language and Theme" in section Webmin.

  2nd of March  2008

• 2 times more RAM in dedicated servers

  We have doubled the amount of RAM installed in our standard offers for simple 1HD dedicated servers (upgraded from 512MB to 1GB) as well as for recommended 2HD's dedicated servers (upgraded from 1GB to 2GB).

  16th of November  2007

• all2all is now a RIPE LIR

  Moving Art Studio has become a RIPE member and all2all, as a Local Internet Registry, is now able to directly provide IP address blocs to organisations which would need them.

  5th of November  2007

• Nagios monitoring system deployed

  Nagios (www.nagios.org) is an open-source host, service, and network monitoring program designed to inform users of network problems before end users do. The monitoring function runs intermittent checks on hosts and services by using external plug-ins that return status information to Nagios. When problems are discovered, the program sends notifications out to administrative contacts in a variety of ways, from email to SMS. Current status information, historical logs, and reports can all be accessed through a Web browser. All shared and dedicated servers at all2all are now monitored 24/7 by a dedicacted health checking server system.

  15th of August  2007

• New antispam/antivirus system online

  Today, 20th of June, we have installed a new dedicated antispam/antivirus server. The new filtering system is now on a dedicated 64-bit multiprocessing platform with 8 Xeon CPUs (2 Xeon Quad Core X5335 2Ghz FSB1333 with 8MB L2 cache). This new distributed setup also enables us to add new antispam/antivirus systems in a round robin load balancing configuration when the spam frequency increases in the future.

  20th of June  2007

• Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (Etch) released

  On April 8th, 2007, the Debian Project has announced the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0, codenamed Etch, after 21 months of constant development. See the release notes for detailed information on Debian Etch. We install now by default Debian Etch on all new all2all servers.

  10th of April  2007

• Console Port Management system ready

  all2all has bought a new management console to control a server via the serial port: the CM4148 from Opengear. It enables to open an alternative path to the machine even when the Ethernet connection is down (because of a config error or too strict firewall rules). The CM4148 will be used in our dedicated server racks.

  10th of August  2006

• New FAQ question: how to open a new website?

  First of all you should choose one of the different account types. You can find an overview and prices here : http://www.all2all.net/web-hostings/ Once you have selected the desired hosting solution, fill out the subscription form by cliquing on the "order" buton associated to it. You will then receive a confirmation email in return with all the needed information to make your payment. Transmission of loggin and password will only occured when the payment has been received. Please send us your PGP or GnuPG public key if you want to receive your password and username in a protected manner.

  24th of June  2006

  read more about New FAQ question: how to open a new website?

• New website building up

  This week, under the heat, we are working on the first pages of the new website.

  19th of June  2006