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 inconvenience this outage may cause.
Please report any problems you may experience post-update via the form linked on our Contact Us page.
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.
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 any inconvenience.
-Computing and Communications Services
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.
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
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 will be upgraded to WordPress 4.7 on Friday, January 13, 2017 between 6:00am and 8:00am.
blog.ryerson.ca users, and visitors to your sites, may experience a brief outage during this time.
This upgrade includes some feature changes, security fixes and performance updates.
Details can be found here.
Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.
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
From servicealerts.blog.ryerson.ca:
Ryerson’s Blog system, blog.ryerson.ca, experienced a system outage from Monday, Nov. 7, 2016 5:50 PM to Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016 7:40 AM.
We are investigating the cause of the problem.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
-Computing and Communications Services
From servicealerts.blog.ryerson.ca:
Ryerson’s Blog system, blog.ryerson.ca experienced a system outage today, Monday October 17, 2016
The issue started about 11:45 AM with intermittent errors and was fixed at about 1:55 PM.
We are continuing to investigate the problem.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
-Computing and Communications Services