Category: Announcements

When we launched WebServ four years ago, our mission was to provide free, easy to use hosting to all recognized student organizations at Drexel. Over the years, we’ve learned about our users’ needs and the internet in general. Two of the major things things we have learned are: one, people love sharing pictures and two, there are some really terrible site designs out there.

Today, we’re launching a new service with both of those in mind.

CatServ is a new service we’re launching with the mission to raise awareness of cats on the internet. We found that many of the photos shared on the internet are of cats, but they’re spread across several different sites and networks that offer inconsistent experiences. We’ve taken everything we’ve learned from WebServ to launch CatServ Photos: free, unlimited hosting for photos of cats. In our efforts to keep CatServ Photos as easy to use as possible, we developed another product, CatServ Usability. We designed CatServ Photos to be so easy to use, a cat could use it. CatServ Usability tests your site design to see if a cat could use it. For the first year, CatServ Usability is also free.

We’re very excited about CatServ, and we hope that you’ll join us on our newest adventure.

Greetings,

If you are the primary contact for WebServ, our web and file hosting service, you should have received an email from me, Stephen, last night. If not, a copy of the email can be read here.

I wanted to provide an update on the status of service restoration. As you can see, we’ve brought our site back online, which resides on the same server as all of the other web sites we host. As of the last update I have from my team, all other sites remain unavailable at this time. I still do not have any estimate as to when they will be, and I realize that is an annoyance.

So, an update as to where services stand:

• Server rebuild – complete
• Reinstall of required components for WordPress – complete
• Reactivation of TechServ site – complete
• Installation of new security utilities – in progress
• Reactivation of all other hosted sites, one by one – in progress
• Installation of new monitoring utilities – postponed until Tuesday
• For our reference, documentation of the entire server configuration – in progress, major work to commence on Saturday
• Full restoration of all services – in progress, major work to be conducted over the weekend

I will continue to update this post as I receive more information from my team with regards to the status of service availability. We’re doing our best to restore them quickly, but in a manner that we are sure is secure.