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April fool !

Posted on Wednesday 2 April 2008

Of course, all this "moving to Iceland" thing was our annual april fool :) Thanks all for your mails : those who laughed with us and those who were affraid of the downtime because of our trip ;)

Please don't forget that our donation campaign is still running ;) Thanks again to all the donators ! we are really happy to see that you are supporting us.

For those who haven't donated yet, have a look at your website's statistics and ask yourself if the service we provide is good enough to receive 5 or 10 euros ;)

Tux is moving back to Iceland \o/

Posted on Tuesday 1 April 2008

We are pleased to inform you that TuxFamily's servers are going to move to Iceland on Tuesday, June 19th.

Our main hoster have just finished his new datacenter and asked us if we wanted to put our servers there. Of course, we are delighted to be the first organization to use the new datacenter : The naturally cold weather and the environment friendly electricity production of Iceland allow to reduce a datacenter's operating costs from 10 to 20%.

The only difficulty is that we have to move the servers by ourselves because our hoster don't want to handle the costs of carrying our stuff to Iceland. We noticed that we can save on shipping costs by sending the servers by sea through New York in order to pay in US Dollars. As the Euro is strong, we can save 10 % which is quite nice regarding to our banking account situation.

All the services will be down during the trip that should last between 27 and 34 days depending on the weather.

Secondary servers are not going anywhere so your mails won't be lost during this period ;)

Help Tuxfamily !

Posted on Tuesday 4 March 2008

TuxFamily need some help to continue evolving.

Mainly because of our expensives hardware upgrades to handle more and more hits and because of our dying file server, we have to lunch our first huge donation campaign for TuxFamily.

Please donate so we can welcome more and more projects with an increasing hosting quality and provide more and more free services for open source related projects.

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Tuxfamily will be at Solutions Linux 2008 !

Posted on Friday 11 January 2008

TuxFamily.org attends to the event Solutions GNU/Linux 2008 in Paris on January 29-30-31

It will be a great time for all of us to meet, talk about your projects and to have some feedbacks on our hosting platform. You are all welcome in our cubicle for a coffee (or more !) We always enjoy having a special time with our hosted people so don't hesitate, come and have a talk with us.

It will also be a good time for us to present our hosted projects. Solution Linux is quite a big event so if you want, we can represent your project to the people we will meet there. Please create a nice presentation/animation/creation to present your project and we will print it out or play it during the event. If you can come, we will also be happy to share our space with you. Please send your creations to ca at association dot tuxfamily dot org or subscribe on the dedicated FAQ page

Don't forget to also subscribe on the official Solution Linux website !

New service: GIT

Posted on Thursday 11 October 2007

Some of you asked for GIT repositories.

This is why we are happy to introduce you to the new TuxFamily's service called "GIT repositories".

Libre Software Meeting 2007

Posted on Friday 25 May 2007

TuxFamily is going to be at LSM 2007 thanks for coming here !

We will continue to provide PHP :-)

Posted on Monday 2 April 2007

Of course, it was our annual april fool :) A small amount of people get fooled by our previous email : we had some interresting replies :)

Anyway, you should know that the electricity used to generate dynamic webpages is a real issue, and we are even not including all the power burnt to fight the spam.

You should also know that the amount of CPU used on TuxFamily to deliver dynamic webpages raises day after day. A few months ago, we had to add a web server to the pool. If the load continue to increase at the actual rate, we will have to add one or two additional servers before the end of the year.

So, if you have some unused hardware (dual PIII, single PIV or even more) or something that is in our wanted list, feel free to ship it to our headquarters, we do know how to use it in an intelligent way ;) If you don't have available hardware but some money, you may also help us by making a small donation. It will help us to continue providing a sufficiently fast and reliable hosting to more and more projects !

In any case, thank you for trusting TuxFamily, thanks, really ! :)

have a nice April 2nd !

The admin's

TuxFamily chooses the way of ecology: the end of PHP

Posted on Sunday 1 April 2007

Informed about all the electricity used by a server and aware of all the environmental issues that are caused by the shameless waste of this resource, we started, a few months ago, a detailed analysis of our platform in order to find and fight our potential points of strong electric consumption. The result of this study confirmed our expectations : 70% of the electric power is used by the generation of dynamic Web pages (including SQL servers). We needed to take an ecological decision! During several months we were looking for a solution, but without success. We planned to lower a bit the load of web servers by adding restrictions through the robots.txt file to all those search engines that are making a lot of queries on the servers. (but is it really read by all search engines ?).

The only solution we can think of is to stop providing a dynamic Web pages service. We met this day in order to decide the fate of the PHP, our decision is taken, we give up the PHP.

However, we are sure that you will transform your website into a static version, it will be thus much faster and it will not depend any more on a SQL server ! Moreover we will soon open a new service allowing you to have a semi-dynamic website by generating the pages of your website each night.

The date of abandonment was fixed at May 1, 2007, but can still be modified depending on the number of still in use dynamic websites. In any case, a hard and final dead line is fixed at September 1, 2007.

New service: jabber

Posted on Sunday 26 November 2006

A jabber service is now available for all TuxFamily users who are in at least one group. Your JID is user@jabber.tuxfamily.org where user and password are your panel credentials. The server is jabber.tuxfamily.org and supports ssl connections. Have fun !

We are using the brand new jabberd2 server which is still in early developement so if you are experiencing connection issues, feel free to report bugs on our mailing list ;)

TuxFamily's forum online!

Posted on Thursday 16 November 2006

You are all welcome on the new TuxFamily's forum. It is a nice place to meet other hosted teams and your favorite staff. Feel free to announce your software releases there. This is YOUR forum, make it comfortable and useful ;) Enjoy !

Please use your panel username and password to login on the forum.

Assembly of TuxFamily.org

Posted on Monday 6 November 2006

Due to the resignation of the president TuxFamily.org organises a meeting on November, the 18th 2006 to speak about what happened and the future of TuxFamily. As the meeting will take place in France and only french people will join the meeting I won't give extra informations here.

New service: downloads repositories

Posted on Thursday 2 November 2006

A lot of you asked for large download repositories to host packages for distribution or cd/dvd iso files. Until today we were increasing the quota to the amount needed on the web service, but we have been experiencing some difficulties, firstly the web service was not designed to deliver such amount of data (even if it is pretty fast), secondly the amount of free space on the web files server is decreasing dramatically.

This is why we are happy to introduce you to the new TuxFamily's service called "Download repositories". You have now the possibility to host larges downloads repositories on TuxFamily, the default quota is set to 1024 MB and can be increased on demand. Files can be downloaded using ftp, http or rsync protocols.

On the hardware side, the storage is made from a bunch of PATA IDE disks in a RAID0 array, so there is absolutely no data recovery system on this service, please keep a local copy of your files. All the system is connected through a gigabit uplink offered by a French internet operator called Free.

Contact us if you wish to migrate without uploading your files again.

Welcome to our new admin

Posted on Monday 23 October 2006

Samuel Lesueur joined the administrator team today.

President resignation

Posted on Sunday 10 September 2006

The president of TuxFamily.org, Julien Delange, has given his resignation on September, the 10th 2006. The current vice-president, Pierre Machard, will replace it temporarily.

Welcome to our new admin

Posted on Thursday 20 April 2006

Gwenael Pellen joined the administrator team today.

TuxFamily.org will remain TuxFamily.org

Posted on Sunday 2 April 2006

We thank you about your mails of support sent for the 1st of April.

TuxFamily.org is and will remain Tuxfamil.org. We won't sell our domain names, since they are useful to every hosted project.

Nevertheless, TuxFamily.org still needs your financial support, and we encourage you to help the organization by making a donation through Paypal. This is one of the best way to help us.

TuxFamily.org becomes TuxFree.org

Posted on Saturday 1 April 2006

Like every organization, TuxFamily suffers from financial problems. It was said during the last meeting that we are lacking of money since our reopening. Since all of our actions did not succeed to fix this lack of money, we accepted to sell our domain name tuxfamily.org for 10000 euros (having a high page rank in Google).

This does not mean that TuxFamily will stop. In fact, the organization and the project will continue with a new name: TuxFree.org.

We are aware that this will probably cause some troubles for hosted projects, but this is the only solution we found for now to ensure the service stability.

Assembly of TuxFamily.org

Posted on Monday 13 February 2006

One year after reopening, TuxFamily.org organises a meeting to speak about what happened. Disccusions will be opened and the staff will answer to hosted's questions.

This event will take place at Paris, in an unknow place. It better to subscribe and notify them if you wish come.

After the meeting, a meal is organised. The restaurant is not choose at this time, so, please come back to know where it will take place. The main goal is to meet hosted people and speak about the services on TuxFamily. Of course, you will speak about your personnal problemes, we will try help you as our best.

TuxFamily interview on Divergence-fm

Posted on Thursday 26 January 2006

TuxFamily get an interview on Divergence-fm radio. We will speak about our hosting services and about some interesting projects you have :

• Debianworld
• Prism54
• Linuxetleschoses

Moreover, Tuxfamly will speak abou new services. From PHP5 to our new games services, we will explain how it will works and when it will be available. Of course, You can listen Divergence-FM on the Internet.