Hello all,
First of all, I’d like to apologize for the recent downtime. The issue was not with onMason but with an impossible-to-anticipate server hardware fault.
The problem was within the server’s RAID, which is a set of redundant hard drives designed to automatically duplicate file systems and spread out data to minimize loss. That set of HDDs is governed by their own set of hardware [...]
Hello onMason users,
We’ve spend the time over the break thinking up new ways to improve onMason and considering how to make the platform better than ever.
We know that there has been some confusion with system downtime last semester and we have reviewed the problems and we do not anticipate them happening again. However, we are [...]
Hello onMason users,
As you are aware, the onMason system has been experiencing some unexpected downtime over the last few days. We’ve been able to track the problem down to issues with our server’s firewall, which have proved temporarily resolvable.
The team at the Office of Student Media has been working hard to find the cause of [...]
The onMason platform has been upgraded to WPMU2.8+. At this time we are seeing some plugin issues which are undergoing repair. We anticipate full functionality returning to the site by the end of the week.
If you experience any problems, it appears our Support plugin is currently malfunctioning. Please leave a comment on this post and we will [...]
We are currently transitioning from WPMU2.7 to 2.8. You may notice some errors and decreased functionality (like on this blog) as we prepare the site for the upgrade. Do not be alarmed.
As you may have noticed there were a number of duplicate themes in our theme directory, as well as templates that were not working or previewing correctly. Some of these duplicate themes were being maintained for testing purposes, while others were there in error.
However, theme issues should now be resolved. There should no longer [...]
Today onMason administrators have completed the following essential system repairs.
You can now logout without any error from the site front page (onMason.com)
You can now upload media to your site and link it without encountering any errors.
Your User Avatar (if assigned) will now properly echo on the onMason front page when you sign in. This means [...]
