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Update: 17/07/2017
To ensure smooth operation in the summer months, a number of things have been improved which have been waiting for a long time. Firstly, due to the unreliability of the AC supplier and/or transformer station providing power,precautionary measures have been taken. This includes the purchase and revival of a 2-stroke, petrol driven 3.5kVA generator capable of supplying power to both the core infrastructure and the air conditioning. The generator is not operational for automatic failover yet.
In case of minor outages and/or to rectify brown-outs, two APC 1500VA units have been installed, providing ample time to start the generator or initiate a controlled shutdown sequence of the environment. A further UPS has been installed providing power to the fiber bridge, ensuring the primary uplink remains operational.
To increase backup/restore performance and expand the capacity of the current offline backup plans, all tape backups are now on LTO (3) which provides a more future proof solution for the time being.
Finally, a Dell RPS-600 power supply has been installed, providing the core switching fabric redundant power in case of both a power failure in the environment or a UPS fault.


Update: 26/02/2017
After some trouble with the core switching fabric earlier this month, half of the switches have been replaced. All switches now share the same hardware and firmware revisions and are configured to prevent such issues from occurring again.
In addition, a fiber ring has been configured between each switch, ensuring connectivity of remaining network segments in case of a single unit failure. This new configuration has now been running for more than a week with no indication of any problems. The backup links have been tested and become active accordingly within a few seconds. The previous switches are still on-site and can be used as a replacement/backup unit for other network segments in case of a failure.


Update: 29/01/2017
Due to an opportunity of acquiring an identical pair of Dell R310 servers, the main firewall cluster has now been upgraded. This not only provides easier management as both nodes share the same chassis, CPU, RAM and NIC configuration, but also removes the requirement for a preferred node.
Both servers feature an integrated Dell iDRAC6 controller with enterprise options enabled and are fully monitored. Furthermore, the Intel Xeon X3450 CPUs are fast enough to enable proper usage of conntrackd, which can ensure a stateful failover when node roles are switched. The IP KVM is also no longer connected to the nodes as they each have full lights-out management via the iDRAC.


Update: 26/09/2015
Welcome to the new and improved version of the @Pel.Net portal.
Once again, the main portal has undergone a number of technical and optical changes. Although the design has not changed, many services have been consolidated in order to provide a simpler framework of applications and more logical navigation. Some services, namely those relying on ASP.NET, have been ported to PHP or consolidated with their PHP counterparts.
Within due time, the 'pelnet.no-ip.org' domain and its respective applications and functionality will be relocated to this combined portal, thus again providing more consistent navigation. A sitemap is not implemented yet, but is on the agenda for Q1 2016.
Because of these relatively major changes, we welcome your feedback more than ever and look forward to hearing or reading from you!


Update: 12/27/2011
Welcome to the new and improved version of the @Pel.Net portal.
After several years of occasionally updating the previous version of the site and modifying existing content, we have now moved to the current design, which will hopefully prove more user friendly and above all provide a previously missing positive, intuitive "Look'n'Feel".
In a few months time, the previous version of the portal will be removed (archived) entirely, but may be made available internally for reference.

Due to unforseen legislative circumstances and updates no more potentially copyrighted material will be made available by means of this portal. According to current planning estimates this will take effect as of 01/06/2012. 
Please note that the non-related services will be kept online and privileged users will retain the possibility to access the internal storage by means of secure Virtual Private Networking. Contact the administrator for more information. 

Should you find a dead link or other inconsistencies, contact the admin via the webmail link on the left or leave a message . Also, we would appreciate it if you were to leave your opinion of the services by filling in our Survey .

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Known Issues:  No open issues at the current time. 

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