[ic] Interchange server migration underway

[Gert van der Spoel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org [mailto:interchange-users-
> bounces at icdevgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jon Jensen
> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2018 08:58
> To: interchange-users at icdevgroup.org
> Subject: [ic] Interchange server migration underway
> 
> Interchange users and developers,
> 
> The datacenter where the icdevgroup.org server has been hosted since 2007 is
> being decommissioned, and the server will be shut down in a little under two
> weeks from today. So the long-planned server move is now happening.
> 
> We have begun migrating services to a new virtual server, and today started by
> making the GitHub repository mirrors the new canonical locations. (We already
> moved problem tracking to GitHub issues a few years
> ago.)
> 
> Anyone using a Git clone of Interchange will need to update the remote URL
> from git.icdevgroup.org to the GitHub URL given on the download page:
> 
> https://www.icdevgroup.org/i/dev/download
> 
> We have set up redirects from (many but not all variations of) the old Gitweb
> URLs such as:
> 
> http://git.icdevgroup.org/?p=interchange.git;a=blob;f=README.md;hb=HEAD
> 
> so that they forward to a relevant GitHub URL.
> 
> We have begun using Cloudflare for DNS and CDN services, including HTTPS.
> 
> We will be discontinuing the anonymous FTP service at ftp.icdevgroup.org,
> which has long been unnecessary and visited primarily by bots. The HTTP
> download service remains available as always using that hostname at:
> http://ftp.icdevgroup.org/
> 
> I'll post more updates over the next week as more services are moved.
> 
> Jon

Thanks for the continuing support Jon & other End Point people!

CU,

Gert