Over the last few months there haven’t been many updates. Just recently Stephanie has joined our admin team, she’s better known as Nemo. She is a bright person and brings up a spur of new activity to the community. Last night she started working on the boards by doing a clean installation and importing the [...]
Over the last few days Oceanius has moved from Charybdis to Inspircd. Inspircd is an IRC daemon written from scratch to facilitate more modern features like modularity in every part of the service and better anti-spam features.
Part of the decision to move over to new software have been said anti-spam features, but the unsurpassed speed [...]
We now offer two methods to connect to Oceanius using a Web Chat.
Utilizing QWebIRC, an up and coming open source project by QuakeNet, we are able to host our own Web Chat which doesn’t require the use of Java. This service is available without ads, like the comparable Mibbit service, at http://chat.oceanius.com. If you [...]
The founder of Chatech and TeenIRC in the past has joined the Oceanius Admin Team. The channels/users of Chatech will be moved over to Oceanius at some point within the next few days. We believe these changes will benefit their users with more network stability and long-term availability. Please welcome Joey and the rest of [...]
After being moved from Chicago to California, wraith.oceanius.com has been permlinked to the network. The server is maintained by the Admin Team, hosted at Hurricane Electric, and sponsored by Sliqua Enterprise Hosting. Enjoy!
The recently testlinked kane.oceanius.com, hosted at ServerCentral, has been approved by the Admin Team after it’s 30 day test link. Please congratulate Tank71 on the servers’ permlink status on Oceanius.
Also, HAPPY NEW YEAR! =]
A server hosted by Fliehe & Schwab IT Solutions has been testlinked to Oceanius by admin DJ_Mirage. As a member of the Executive Board, this testlink was granted without a vote. Our server monitoring company, Panopta, suggested this datacenter location so we feel that it will be a solid European Hub. Please congratulate DJ_Mirage on [...]
Due to stability issues at the Chicago facility wraith.* was located at, in addition to the new testlink of kane.* in Chicago, we have made a decision to move wraith.oceanius.com to the Hurricane Electric facility in Fremont, California. We feel that this server will be a solid location for West Coast users in the United [...]
A server hosted by ServerCentral in Chicago has been testlinked to Oceanius by admin Tank71. The link was granted after a small vote by the Admin Team, all of which was in favor of the link. Oceanius previously had two servers in this same facility that were delinked due to funding. Please congratulate Tank71 on [...]
Two small pieces of news to report to our community.
First, we have decided to give a testlink to wraith.oceanius.com, which is located at the Stargate datacenter in Chicago, IL, US.
Second, we have upgraded our DNS round robin (irc.oceanius.com) to include fail-over capabilities. In the event of a server outage, a server that has not [...]