The Tardis Project

The Tardis Project is a computing facility, run and maintained by students of The University of Edinburgh. It was one of the first such projects of its kind, founded in 1987 by the School of Informatics (previously Department of Computer Science) and is still held in high regard. Tardis provides services to members of the University, such as web hosting and mail access. One of the Tardis Project's main aims is to allow students at the university to be involved in running a large computing system, and learn the experience required to design, build and maintain such a system.

Get Involved Accounts are open to all students and staff, for more information, please see the account applications page, or contact us with any queries you may have. More about the Tardis Project and its purpose can be found in The Tardis Charter. We regularly have meetings in the The Auld Hoose on Mondays at 1830. All are welcome and we would especially like to meet anyone who want accounts or are interested in the project—even if you're a fresher! If you would like to chat to existing Tardis users, our timelords or assistants (sysadmins), please join our IRC channel: #tardis on ImaginaryNET. Popular Services Jenkins CI (docs) GitLab & GitLab CI (about) Sentry (docs) Mailing Lists Webmail Tahoe LAFS (about) User hosts Fez and Torchwood Current Events Here is a list of current changes, major problems and developments going on in Tardis. The move out of the university and subsequent rebuilding of Tardis. If you would like to help us with or you would like to learn about how we are doing any of the above projects please get in touch via Discord or IRC.	Community We use IRC. See Connecting to IRC. IRC channel imaginarynet#tardis Shout web IRC (about) Documentation Systems Services General Administration Administration Documents Meetings Solaris Installation MediaWiki Installation LDAP usage Meta-tracking Admin Projects Things that need fixing Out of date pages News 20 March 2022 Moved rack and servers to new location in Summerhall. 25 February 2022 Shut down all servers running in Appleton Tower. Wiki and homepages now running on Tabris. » View all News

About Tardis Archive People Wiki Statistics 118 Articles 533 Pages 108 Registered Users » This wiki is not up to date, can you help? The majority of system-level documentation is now in NetBox, but this wiki could always use a bit of love. See admin projects