Welcome to the Bur.st Networking website
Bur.st was originally founded in August 1998. It was finally incorporated as a not-for-profit community association in October 2003 and given all ownership of Bur.st, its trademarks and its operations. Bur.st's certificate of Incorporation.

A new awakening

It's been almost two years since an update, and for that we do apologise. We have been working very hard to ensure the system is running efficiently whilst also increasing security.

And as a result of the ever present support of members and staff, we have a new announcement to make. Bur.st has once again opened its doors to new membership!.

Here is a summary of the services provided for all non-donating members:

  • A shell account
  • Mail hosting
  • DNS hosting
  • 10 MB of storage

And for all donating members (a big THANKYOU):

  • 1 gigabyte of disk storage
  • Web hosting
  • Mysql and PHP
  • Multiple mailboxes
  • Full access to all programs
  • ... and many more

To all new members, welcome, and enjoy your stay at Bur.st.

Bur.st problems / downtime (February 2009)

Hi all - we experienced the failure of 2 out of 4 of our RAID10 disks on Sunday. As a result we had no disk redundancy.

We have performed work to fully backup, replace all hard drives and re-install a newer operating system. This work was performed from Sunday through Monday night. We are working as of Tuesday morning (February 16) to finish restoring services.

No data was lost, and mail should have been spooled - but it will take some time (1-2 days) for all the mail to flush through.

Please contact support@bur.st with any problems. We are still working on MySQL.

Bur.st in 2008

In recent news:

  • Admins have resolved a major mail server problem
  • We have some plans to fix the support queue. Until then please try to keep requests down to a minimum
  • Mail seconding services are being discontinued and will be phased out over the comming months
  • There will be some downtime soon for a RAM upgrade and hdd repair
  • Donations have dried up and we are bleeding money now, with new signups having been closed for a long time due to the lack of support staff

Bur.st Annual General Meeting 2007

The minutes of Bur.st's 2007 Annual General Meeting are now available online.

Bur.st Powers On Into 2007!

As you can see we have a new website design, thanks to Brent. We hope you like it, but if not there is a thread on the forums about it where you can give your opinion.

We have been working to clean up the spam on the forums and a new forum patch and security features will hopefully keep the spammers out of there. The forum is a good place to go for common problems and questions about using bur.st for various things (such as web development). Remember that the Bur.st support team cannot help you with setting up your website or coding PHP, but you can usually find a forum post for common problems.

Support queues are very busy lately as we have many new users and our support team is coping as best they can.

Thankyou to all our users who continue to support us with donations! They help to keep our servers running 24/7 and we simply wouldnt be here if it wasnt for the generosity of these users.

Bur.st Annual General Meeting 2006

The AGM was held tonight (17th October 2006) on irc.bur.st #AGM and everything went well. Minutes of the meeting will be made available soon(ish).

Please welcome Rob Morgan (of Waix Resources) and Simon Chalmers (our fearless Technical Manager) onto the board. Also welcome back Andrew Francis returning to the board for another term. You just cant keep this man away!

Thanks to all the members who showed up for the event. The IRC format was ideal, as it allowed members from across Australia to attend. The lack of refreshments at this AGM was cause for minor concern.

Recent IP Changes

ns2.bur.st and mail2.bur.st new IP: 203.82.210.9
ns3.bur.st and mail3.bur.st new IP: 202.53.4.130

New Server has Arrived

After much work and time our new server is now fully live and functional. The server went live on the 1st April 2006. As this is a new server there are bound to be a few hiccups so please email with any issues.

Bur.st Donating Members - Thank you for your continued support!

Bur.st relies on user donations to pay the bills, keep critical systems up-to-date and expand for the future. Donating members can access additional services such as PHP & MySQL for dynamic website hosting, multiple domain hosting and unhindered shell access (among other things). Click here for some other reasons to become a donating member.

Contacting Us
Bur.st Networking Inc
PO Box 3299
Broadway-Nedlands WA 6009
Australia
Bur.st is proudly supported by
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Dear Bur.st Users,

Overall Summary:
  • Bur.st's Hosting Services are moving to WAIA.
  • There will be no changes for users, until at least the end of April.
  • WAIA and Bur.st are still discussing the long term plan and handover. We expect that most, if not all, services will be transitioned to WAIA.

As you may or may not have heard, a recent announcement on our website has indicated that Bur.st will close early 2012. The purpose of this email is to explain the reasons for the closure and to communicate the future plans. A number of factors have contributed to this decision to close. Primarily it has been based on the time and effort required by our volunteers, as well as the on-going costs to maintain the enviroments that support Bur.st. It is also based on changes in the hosting market, as a lot has changed in the 13 years since Bur.st first offered services! We're also mindful of giving users the opportunity to move their files/email/hosting off our servers before they are shut down - we certaintly didn't feel it would good to be remembered for just shutting off our servers and services with no prior warning!

So that's all the doom and gloom. The exciting news that we have to share is that the services that Bur.st offer will continue to be provided by a like-minded organisation. Bur.st and the Western Australian Internet Association (WAIA*) are in the final stages of developing a plan that will see continuity of Bur.st services for the foreseeable future. After much consultation and dicussion, the Bur.st Team felt that WAIA were in the best position - as they are also a not-for-profit organisation based in WA - to continue to provide great service to the WA and wider Australian online community.

Plans are still being flushed out, and we hope to provide an update in the next month of what exactly it will mean with the migration of users and services from Bur.st to WAIA, so please stay tuned!

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been involved with Bur.st over the years, from inaugural board and founding members, to technical support staff and sponsors of services - and most importantly, for the generous support of all our users. Without the support of all these people, Bur.st would never have been able to offer great value and benefit to all of its members and users.

Regards,

Bur.st Team


* About WAIA: http://www.waia.asn.au/content/about-waia
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