Category Archives: sysadmin

Measures to protect our web services.

Posted on June 2, 2026 by papoteur

Like many services in the software world, our services are subject to disruptive automated requests that overload our servers. You may have noticed this in the form of significant loading delays or even services becoming unavailable. We have therefore implemented … Continue reading →

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[Solved] Our other servers are down again

Posted on September 17, 2025 by marja

As you can see, our blogs are still up and running. However, the servers hosting most of the rest of our infrastructure, like the forums, wiki and bugzilla, are not. I assume we are under attack from bots again, but … Continue reading →

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An avalanche of AI bots is repeatedly taking parts of our website down

Posted on May 18, 2025 by marja

We have always had bots visiting our website. They were mostly kind bots, like the crawlers that keep the databases of search engines up-to-date. Those kind bots start by looking at our robots.txt files before doing anything, and respect the … Continue reading →

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[SOLVED] Most of mageia.org temporarily down

Posted on October 3, 2023 by marja

Since a little over two hours ago, most of our servers can no longer be reached. The issue is under investigation and we hope to have all of our servers back online soon. Update: One of our sysadmins explained that … Continue reading →

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Mageia Infrastructure planned outage

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Patricia Fraser

In case you missed the announcement on all the mailing lists, Mageia infrastructure will be shut down for scheduled maintenance beginning on: Tuesday February 27th, from  around 10.00 UTC That means Forums, Wiki, Bugzilla, Mailing lists, website (www.mageia.org) and the buildsystem … Continue reading →

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