Category Archives: System Status

TAPACOM servers are scanned quarterly to test and report security issues. These tests were recently perfomed on December 27 and 28. During these tests Internet services may temporarily become unavailable. Information gleaned from these tests are used to improve security and services. Mahalo for understanding.

The listserver at our Kaimuki network center lost connectivity to the Internet from 4:00 am to 8:00 am today. Local telco has restored service. No other TAPACOM services were affected.

TAPACOM’s DNS servers have had intermittent connection losses to the Internet for the past two weeks. This has been resolved by replacing equipment. The failed component was only placed in service September 11, 2007. DNS connection failures will disrupt web hosting and mail services. Additionally, TAPACOM has added an additional domain name server which provides service from a remote location. This will improve fail-safe service.

Over the coming week TAPACOM some hosted web sites may be offline intermittently in preparation and execution of an upgrade of its PHP services. Work will be done during non-primetime periods so that the impact will be as small as possible. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Technology today depends on different technology providers working in synch with each other. When it doesn’t work well stuff happens. This morning it happened. There was a change made by one of our network providers and the word didn’t come down in time to make sure there would be no service disruption. In a perfect world there wouldn’t have been any problems. Anyway, we’re back … Continue reading →

The server, Osiris, has been restored to functionality. A corrupted file that was needed by the web server was the cause for the system crash. Changes were made to prevent the same type of problem from reoccuring.

The web server on one of the machines (Osiris) on the TAPACOM network exhibited some problems early Sunday morning. Work is being done to restore it to functionality. This does not affect web sites hosted on the Hoku server. News will be posted about this as it becomes available.