1: Voice Hosting Update
Posted by Voice Admin on 06/06/20 10:31

Hi again,

Just to let you know how the hosting switch is progressing.

Email Sending

As a few users have reported, there have been a few problems with outgoing emails, as some hosts (e.g., msn/blueyonder/yahoo) have been refusing to accept emails from the newly reloacated Voice servers.

I'm monitoring the outgoing email records on the system and can see when they fail, and updating configuration where necessary to allow them to send. You don't need to do anything - I can see when emails send or fail.

At some point soon I feel sure that all emails will be sending properly again! :-)

DNS Updates

For sites using a custom hostname, the new IP address to use is 83.136.248.56. (the old one was 46.20.114.167).

If you go to the Site Domain settings in your Voice site, you will see in there what Voice thinks about your domain. If you see the message OK: Using remote IP: 46.20.114.134 then your domain is still pointing at the old IP address (which will stop working at the end of June).

If the message is simply OK then you have updated it correctly!

Note that the DNS settings need to be changed with your registrar, and we can't do this bit for you. Instructions for updating DNS are here.

If you're using a service like CloudFlare that puts its own servers in front of Voice then you'll need to ensure that the new Voice IP addresses is added to your CloudFlare settings.

Thanks for your patience during these changes. I assure you they're worth it! (and we had no choice anyway, because the previous hosting company is closing down!)

Joe - Voice Admin

 

 

2: Re: Voice Hosting Update (response to 1)
Posted by Alan-Parry (Euphonix Admin). on 06/06/20 14:49

Hi Joe,

Before changing the IP address I was getting more and more complaints that emails were not being recieved.  Initially I thought that they were ending up in Junk Mail folders, but when members who had been in regular receipt of emails found that they were no longer getting them a little research indicated that the problem was probably associated with the IP address.  With the change of IP address I thought that things might improve, and obviously the new IP address needs to bed in - I only changed mine at lunchtime yesterday.

If the problem persists into next week can you identify to local adminstrators the emails that are failing (you mentioned that you can see them as an administrator) as we will need to make alternative arrangements for some of our members.

Thanks

Alan

3: Re: Voice Hosting Update (response to 1)
Posted by Andrew Brown on 03/07/20 16:32

Hi Joe,

I have updated the DNS to the new IP address, I was able to do  the change 01/07/20. At that time our website was down, unfortunately it's still down, what can I do to get our website back up?

Our website is templelegalcentre.org

We are a small charity and our funders have spotted the website is down and are making its reappearance a requirement for further funding which is due.

Regards

Andrew Brown

 

4: Re: Voice Hosting Update (response to 3)
Posted by Voice Admin on 03/07/20 19:10

For some reason, as well as correctly updating the DNS for the domain you'd also deleted the domain name from the Site Domain settings of your Voice site.

I've put the domain back into the Site Domain settings and now it's working fine!

I hope your funding is successful. (We could do with some funding for Voice itself!)

Thanks

Joe - Voice Admin

5: Re: Voice Hosting Update (response to 4)
Posted by Andrew Brown on 04/07/20 10:08

Hi Joe,

Thank for your response. I've tried to open website this morning and I'm not see templelegalcentre.org, I'm going onto Voice website, is there anything else I can do?

Thanks

 

Andrew Brown

6: Re: Voice Hosting Update (response to 5)
Posted by Nick_H on 04/07/20 10:16

Andrew,

I can see your website fine, likely you need to delete your cookies or do a CTRL+F5 on your browser to do a refresh.
Hope that helps.
Nick

7: Re: Voice Hosting Update (response to 6)
Posted by Andrew Brown on 04/07/20 13:38

Hi Nick,

 

Thanks for your advice, I can now see the website

8: Re: Voice Hosting Update (response to 7)
Posted by Andrew Brown on 06/07/20 16:25

Hi,

I have the website back, templelegalcentre.org , however I now can't see an edit button, can you please advise how I can edit the page?

 

Thanks

9: Re: Voice Hosting Update (response to 8)
Posted by Voice Admin on 06/07/20 19:13

If you log in as one of the adminis of the site (login button bottom right) then the edit buttons will appear at the bottom of the page.

Thanks

Joe

10: Re: Voice Hosting Update (response to 9)
Posted by Andrew Brown on 07/07/20 10:15

Hi Joe,

when I log on I can onle see

Your Account   Groups      Email preferences

 

I can't see the edit button to modify the page?

 

Thanks 

11: Re: Voice Hosting Update (response to 10)
Posted by Sorrel Parsons on 07/07/20 10:23

Andrew you could try clicking on Groups, then see if Temple Legal Centre is in the list and click on the website link.

Hopefully the buttons appear?

Sorrel, Superhighways

12: Re: Voice Hosting Update (response to 10)
Posted by Voice Admin on 07/07/20 11:23

You need to log in as one of the admin accounts, and the account you're currently using on here is not an admin account of that site.

For obvious reasons I'm not going to paste the email addresses of the admins on here :-)

If you don't know what the admin accounts are then you could ask one of the admins to let you know, or email me at admin@e-voice.org.uk and I can tell you.

Thanks

Joe