Category Archives: Status

Ensembl downtime Mon 16th July

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Steve Trevanion

All Sanger located Ensembl based websites (www.ensembl.org, pre.ensembl.org, archives and vega.sanger.ac.uk) will be unavailable for a short period on Mon, 16th July from 1300 GMT. We expect the maintenance to be completed within the hour. Ensembl mirrors (useast.ensembl.org, uswest.ensembl.org and … Continue reading →

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BLAST / BLAT unavailable 20th June

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Steve Trevanion

BLAST and BLAT will be unavailable for a short period from 13.00 BST on Wed 20th June due to some hardware maintenance being required. We expect this work to be complete within the hour. This will affect the main Ensembl … Continue reading →

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BLAST / BLAT downtime on Thur 24th May

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Steve Trevanion

BLAST and BLAT will be unavailable for a short period from 13.00 BST on Thur 24th due to some hardware maintenance being required. We expect this work to be complete within the hour. This will affect the main Ensembl site, … Continue reading →

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Ensembl downtime Thur 17th May pm

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Steve Trevanion

Due to urgent maintenance being required, all Sanger located Ensembl based websites (www.ensembl.org, pre.ensembl.org, archives and vega.sanger.ac.uk) will be unavailable for a short period on Thur, 17th May from 1300 GMT. We expect the work to be completed within the … Continue reading →

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Notice: Ensembl Genomes currently offline [UPDATE: Service restored]

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Giulietta (Outreach)

Due to a network problem, all of the Ensembl Genomes sites such as http://plants.ensembl.org and http://www.ensemblgenomes.org are currently offline.  Other EBI services are also affected (including ENA and EGA).  Our network providers are working to fix the problem, and will … Continue reading →

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Sanger datacentre downtime

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Ensembl

The Sanger datacentre will be closing down for maintenance from midday (UK time) on Friday 21st October, until the evening of Sunday 23rd October. If you wish to use the Ensembl browser, try: uswest.ensembl.org useast.ensembl.org asia.ensembl.org As a result all … Continue reading →

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www.ensembl.org down for 30 minutes on Friday 4-4:30

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Giulietta (Outreach)

An urgent firmware update by sanger systems will result in downtime on the main site (www.ensembl.org) for 30 minutes (expected) at 4 PM UK time (BST) today, 9 September.  The services affected will be the websites (www.ensembl.org, archive sites, vega.sanger.ac.uk, … Continue reading →

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World IPv6 Day and database maintenance

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Ensembl

Please be aware that the Sanger Institute is participating in World IPv6 Day on Wednesday 8th June. There should hopefully be no disruption to Ensembl services during this time, but if you do have any problems accessing any of our … Continue reading →

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BLAST maintenance – 8/9th May

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Ensembl

The Sanger BLAST servers are scheduled for routine maintenance on the morning of Monday 9th May. The queues will therefore be closed to new queries on Sunday 8th May, and access from Ensembl to BLAST will be disabled during this … Continue reading →

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Ensembl UK shutdown – 8/9th January 2011

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Anne (Webteam)

Owing to problems with our data centre cooling system, the Sanger network will be offline from around 4.30pm on Friday 7th January until the evening of Sunday 9th January (UK time). This means that all UK-based Ensembl sites, including www.ensembl.org, … Continue reading →

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