FoxSoft S&W Development

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December 10, 2012
  Scheduled Downtime
All services on the FS Network are expected to be unavailable for 5 to 30 minutes on 12/12/12 due to scheduled maintenance on core network infrastructure. More information on the latest news page.

Sept 9, 2012
  Databases moved
Databases have been moved from PHOENIX (db-5/mbk-2) to GRYPHON-II (mlt-1).

July 20, 2012
  New Server All websites and services, except the databases, are now being served from a new server. Databases are expected to transition to the new server soon. Please report any issues you encounter to FoxSoft Support.

November 12, 2011
  Network Reconstruction Status Since the network failures a few weeks ago, we have been running on backup servers until tonight. The main webservers are now serving all sites hosted on the FoxSoft Network. All website files have been restored (and synced if required), if you are missing files, please contact us and we will resolve the issue. No files or settings were lost during the failure.
Please note; however, that the databases are still running on backup systems: we hope to get the database servers running in the near future.

June 28, 2010
  Our website has undergone a facelift! Please note that we are still working on a few pages and some content might not yet be avialable. More Info...

June 26, 2010
  2nd quarter website reports have been published.
*non-FSFlex Customers: Please contact us if you would like to receive a copy for your website. (?)

March 30, 2010
  1st quarter website reports have been published.
*non-FSFlex Customers: Your reports have been mailed or faxed. (?)

News

FoxSoft to close TheCodeCube - IT Community...
August 11, 2010 | TCC to be converted to article directory devoted to IT and the like.

Today FoxSoft has begun preparations to close TheCodeCube - IT Community, it's two-year-old SMF-based forum community. The reason for closing is primarily the lack of interest or activity, as well as the lack of time and resources of the administration. Founded in July of 2008 by Andrew "AJ32" Warner, TCC's goal was to provide a free community-based website to anyone interested in IT, whether it be in programming, hardware, or IT Support. TCC was also meant to be a place for beginners to ask questions and hobbyists alike. Although they had a strong start, key members, including part of the administration, eventually drifted away and the community became a ghost town.

Lately, the FoxSoft team has been trying to decide what to do with the site, whether to simply shut it down or to convert it to a different type of site or to sell it. On Tuesday, a decision was finally made to shut down the forum and community part of the site, keeping the tutorials and snippets, which would later be placed in the directory. TCC's new purpose will be a user-managed directory, however, specific details of the inner workings and design of the new site have not been released yet, there is a popular idea that it will still be based of the SimpleMachinesForum software, but will a specially-designed theme to make it work as an article directory.

Soon TCC's homepage will sport an orange-colored banner stating that the site will be closing along with an explanation of the new site and a link to other sites of similar goal/type of TCC. These sites have not been decided upon yet, however probable candidates would be theCodeProject, a leading programming-oriented community with hundreds of tutorials, Daniweb, a IT Discussion Community, and/or Dream.In.Code, another leading Programming / Software Development community.

FoxSoft will be shifting resources over to development and testing of FSFlex, a website administration suite. There have even been discussions of using TCC's theme for the FSFlex support / information site. However, this means FoxSoft isn\t planning on doing any kind of major redesign of TCC anytime soon, so the new system might not sport a totally custom-made theme, as it always has, but will likely be using a default or community-created theme, especially if FoxSoft decides to change the software TCC is based on. FoxSoft will not be designing TCC's new subsystem from scratch. Furthermore, this also means that TCC's Community's closing might not be something that happens all to soon, as FoxSoft will only be devoting minimal resources to the remake.

This time between now and the finished remake of the site will not be all idle time though, as FoxSoft will be contacting members about using their tutorials and resources in TCC's new directory, as well as contacting one of TCC's original creators about the issue. They will also be dealing with a few other internal and "political" issues with the major restructuring of the site. FoxSoft has stated that until the new site is ready, the forums (along with the rest of the site) will remain operational, but this is "subject to change".

This is an early report, and no news of this is currently posted on TCC's announcement board, but FoxSoft will be making more announcements as more decisions are made and questions answered.

Written by: -Andrew "AJ32" Warner and Chris "JC199" Patterson

Scheduled FS.N. Downtime
December 10, 2012 | FoxSoft Network Services - Scheduled Downtime

The FoxSoft Network will be brought offline for about half an hour on December 12th around 1440 EST. During this downtime we will be performing several scheduled maintenance tasks that require the network to be offline, and several systems to be shut down and rebooted. This includes hardware upgrades in at least one primary server and hardware maintenance on the load balancing server and several switches. Due to the nature of these tasks, the following services will be offline for the duration of the downtime: Web, database, internal communications, and all hosted services on the GRFN-72 and EAG-753 servers. We apologize for any inconvenience this downtime may cause. Some services are expected to come back online before others. Services will be begin coming online once the synchronization and Load balancing servers are online.

Notification Type: Scheduled Downtime
Time: 12/12/12 1440 EST
Duration: Approx. 30 minutes
Systems affected:
GRFN-72 (GRYPHON-II), EAG-753 (EAGLE), EAG-904 (REAGLE), FOX-225 (PHOENIX)
FW-32 (ARKBIRD), SW-493 (BLUEHAWK), SW-747 (SEAHAWK), SW-468 (SKYHAWK)
ALL RACs

- Nicolas L.

FoxSoft Software and Web Development gets a new site!
August 2, 2010 | FoxSoft has re-done their homepage site, www.foxsoftonline.net

We have been working on the new design of our website lately, and some areas are still under construction, so we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. For questions, comments, suggestions, and/or complaints, contact us at newsite@foxsoftonline.net!

More information to come as the site is completed!

Written by: -Randy P. L. London