Does anyone know what is happening with the sciensano server? I can’t get through. Is it under maintenance? And for how long?
Welcome @Rito_Leanah_Mikhari
Is this the server you are asking about? Sciensano - Galaxy Community Hub
I am unable to access it either at this time, so it is a bit difficult to check. I’m also wondering if the older server is now renamed to be UseGalaxy.be - Galaxy Community Hub but I’m not sure!
Let’s ask someone who might know more than me! Hi @padge would you be able to confirm if I have this correct? Or are these two distinct Belgian servers? Do you happen to know the status of the other? Or a good contact? We can also ask someone from the EU team to see if they know, hi @wm75, any input?
For general microbial analysis, this is another Galaxy server I can think of that would be a nice alternative. It offers a large data quota storage space, high-throughput clusters, and all of the microbial and metagenomics Galaxy GTN tutorials (and workflows!) will work run really well here since it the same server where most were developed! Your account will be the same as at UseGalaxy.eu or you can create a new one if you don’t have one yet!
Let’s start there, thanks! 
Hi @jennaj @Rito_Leanah_Mikhari
The Sciensano server is a separate server (galaxy.sciensano.be). I also can not reach it at the moment. I do know the admin so I’ll try to reach out about this.
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Thank you so much for your response. I was able to reach someone from the Belgium team. They are aware of the issue, and explained that There is a physical disruption between their servers and the data center. Service engineers are investigating the issue, which has the highest priority. The expected duration of the downtime is currently unknown unfortunately.
So we wait I guess.
kind regards
Rito
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Thanks @padge and @Rito_Leanah_Mikhari for reaching out to them and checking the status! Let’s leave this open until resolved in case anyone else notices the issue and is confused. 