Web Server Down

UPDATE (2008-08-09, 8:36pm): Our website is back up! The malfunctioning hardware has been replaced, and service restored.

The Sonrise web server is down today (8/8/08). As much as we'd like to say that it's because of a torrent of traffic for the Olympics, it's really just because of a networking hardware failure. We're looking to procure a new device and plan to have the server up and running shortly.

Website Address in Transition

Where did our website go?! Not to fear, it's still here. The old UCSF server for registered campus organizations (RCOs) was recently decommissioned, and in its place arose a new server from the Office of Student Life (OSL). The OSL is kind enough to host this server, but to use the server we would be restricted to a content management system rather than using our own customized website. We've been testing our website on our own hosting system for the past several months and seen performance above our expectations.

Rather than using the management system, we have decided to keep our website. New UCSF web policy does not allow automatic redirects, however, which is why we have a placeholder page on the OSL server. On that page we have a link that leads directly to our original site.

Schematically, it looks like this:

ucsf.edu/sonrise --(automatic)--> rco.ucsf.edu/index.php/sonrise/index --(manual)--> sonrise.hopto.org

We do not yet have access to our OSL page, but as soon as we do, we will update it with further information about our group and our website.