Gerard Beekmans wrote: > Hi guys, > > The hosting company where the new server is located is going through a > round of upgrades including physical hardware relocation to their new > facility. This means our server will need to be powered down for a while > (estimated two hours or less but their total maintenance window is 8 hours). > > The outage window itself is June 5, 2013 between 8:00 PM and 4:00 AM PDT. > > Our account is also eligible for a free upgrade which also will shut the > machine down and migrate to their new facility. This combined upgrade & > relocation will take an estimated 3 hours but if it's done before June > 5, we are in control exactly when it happens and not have to deal with > an entire 8 hour window. > > I plan to take advantage of this upgrade and initiate it some time late > at night when the server usage is at its average lowest point (starting > at around midnight PDT). A likely day will be on a weekend day. I will > confirm the exact time of this happening. I have to prepare ahead of > time to ensure no DNS outages will occur, etc. > > The upgrade itself will double the amount of RAM (from 4 GB to 8 GB). > Disk space and monthly bandwidth remain unchanged but they are more than > sufficient for our purposes already. > > Stay tuned for more details coming soon.
That sounds fine. I think we need a couple of additional notifications as we get closer to June 5 would be appropriate. Also, there are a few questions. Will the IP address change? Will you start up rsyncd for the mirrors to resync? Will we transition email/mailman to higgs and allow search of email? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
