Category: Alert

  • Announcing a new way of authoring posts: Gutenberg

    If you’ve logged into blog.ryerson.ca lately, to edit your blog, you may have noticed a new announcement from the WordPress team about a new feature called ‘Gutenberg’. 2019 UPDATE: We will be upgrading to WordPress version 5.0 (with the Gutenberg block editor) on Friday, February 15, 2019.

  • blog.ryerson.ca Outage planned for Friday, May 11

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    A brief outage of blog.ryerson.ca is required on Friday, May 11 from 6:00 – 7:00 a.m. for system maintenance. Access to the blogs on this network will not be available during this time.

  • Problems reported during file upload – Resolved

    Some blog.ryerson.ca users reported problems uploading images to their blog sites between April 6 and 13, 2017. We believe that the issue only impacted users who were posting from off-campus on Mac devices. Our security team applied a fix on Thursday, April 13, which we believe has resolved this issue. As usual, if you experience…

  • blog.ryerson.ca SCHEDULED OUTAGE Friday, April 21, 2017 at 7:30 a.m. [UPDATED]

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    Update on Friday, April 21: The change was successful, and blog.ryerson.ca was available to users again by 8:50 a.m. blog.ryerson.ca will undergo an update on Friday, April 21, 2017 between 7:30 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. blog.ryerson.ca users, and visitors to your sites, will not be able to access the blogs during this time. We apologize for any…

  • blog.ryerson.ca Outage 2017/03/17

    The blog.ryerson.ca server became unresponsive on Friday, March 17, 2017 at 5:42 AM. The service was restarted and returned to normal at 7:27 AM. We are investigating the root cause. Please accept our apologies for any problems this outage has caused.  

  • Network outage affects access to blog.ryerson.ca 2017/03/12

    An outage in Ryerson’s core network on Sunday morning prevented access to blog.ryerson.ca. Please see the details below. From servicealerts.blog.ryerson.ca: On Sunday March 12, 2017 at 3:00 AM, a core network device failed. This prevented all access from/to the Internet. Network services team resolved the issue and services resumed at 11:00 AM. We apologize for…

  • blog.ryerson.ca SCHEDULED EXTENDED OUTAGE Thursday, March 09, 2017 – Friday, March 10, 2017.

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    We are migrating blog.ryerson.ca to a new database server, which will require an extended outage. You will not be able to access blogs on this site from 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 09 until 8:00 a.m. on Friday, March 10. This change is being made in order to improve the performance of the blog system.

  • blog.ryerson.ca Outage 2017/02/28

    From servicealerts.blog.ryerson.ca: The blog.ryerson.ca server became unresponsive on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 12:57 AM. The service was restarted and returned to normal at 9:23 AM. We are investigating the root cause. Please accept our apologies for any problems this outage has caused. -Computing and Communications Services  

  • blog.ryerson.ca Outage 2017/01/19

    From servicealerts.blog.ryerson.ca: The blog.ryerson.ca server became unresponsive on Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 7:50 PM. The server was restarted and service returned to normal at 8:25 AM on Thursday, January 19, 2017. We are investigating the root cause. Please accept our apologies for any problems this outage has caused. -Computing and Communications Services  

  • blog.ryerson.ca Outage 2016/11/19

    From servicealerts.blog.ryerson.ca: The blog.ryerson.ca server became unresponsive on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016 at 6:40 PM with a database error. The server was restarted and returned to service by 7:51 PM. We are investigating the root cause. Please accept our apologies for the problems this outage caused. -Computing and Communications Services