New SSL certificate

Thanks to support from Math, Stat and CS department at UW-Stout, our WeBWorK server got a brand new SSL certificate. The new certificate should now be recognized as a valid certificate which, in turn, should eliminate browser warnings.

WeBWorK server might be unavailable tonight

WeBWorK server webwork.uwstout.edu might not be available tonight to anyone accessing the server from off-campus from 8pm Monday, September 27th until 8am Tuesday, September 28th due to some work being done on fiber connection, as was announced via email:

Campus Internet Outage

Off-campus Internet network resources will be unavailable from 8 tonight, through 8 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 28.

This outage is due to fiber maintenance being performed in the Eau Claire area.

Update:

This just in from our network administrator:
The fiber will be cut (and connectivity lost) at 1:30am Tuesday September 28th. Ours [Stout's] will be one of the first pairs reconnected. They expect the work to be completed on our segment at approximately 3:00am Tuesday September 28th, no later than 6:00am

Move is complete.

The move seems to be complete. The webwork.uwstout.edu server got a new ip address, and seems to be operational.

MSCS Department is Moving

Our department is moving into a newly constructed/remodeled building, which means that webwork.uwstout.edu server might go offline for a couple of days at any moment. More details will be posted when available.

Update: we've moved the server yesterday into the new building. Since there is a scheduled power outage for the whole weekend in the new building, the server is not available now. It should be back online Monday, August 23rd sometime in the afternoon.

Campus Network Outage: 10pm July 29th through 5am July 30th

From UW-Stout Telecommunications and Networking:

Due to a fiber-backbone move taking place in Eau Claire, the campus will be without internet access from 10 p.m., Thursday, July 29, until 5 a.m., Friday, July 30.

I expect webwork.uwstout.edu to be unavailable during that time as well.

Server Reconfigured

Our server (webwork.uwstout.edu) was reconfigured to run 32-bit operating system.

All courses were backed up Tuesday, May 24 at 2pm. They should be back online now.

It turns out that 64-bit operating system requires about 3x more memory than 32-bit OS to run WeBWorK efficiently.

Sunday Outage: 10:35am-12:17pm, May 02

There was an outage this Sunday, May 02 between 10:35am-12:17am. My guess is that the power was down in the building where the server is housed.