All, We have confirmation from Rackspace that the maintenance will begin in ~5 minutes.
Thanks!
Stephen
* Stephen Frost (sfr...@snowman.net) wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> This is take-2 on this. Apologies for the short notice.
>
> As some may be aware, we are currently working with Rackspace to
> upgrade the PostgreSQL infrastructure systems which they graciously
> host for us. As part of these upgrades there will be downtime for
> systems hosted there.
>
> To facilitate the migration of systems, Rackspace is upgrading the
> switching infrastructure to Gigabit (from 100Mbps). This upgrade will
> happen on Tuesday, April 29th (today, for most of the world), between
> 2100-2200 UTC (5pm-6pm US/Eastern). We hope the downtime will be
> minimal but the window allows for up to 1 hour. To be clear- this is
> ~4 hours from the time of this email.
>
> This downtime will impact all systems hosted @ Rackspace as they are
> upgrading the switch for us. End-user services which will be impacted
> include:
>
> yum.postgresql.org
> wiki.postgresql.org
> git master server (Committers only)
> planet.postgresql.org
> www.pgadmin.org, ftp.pgadmin.org
> media.postgresql.org
> commitfest.postgresql.org
> developer.postgresql.org (Developer personal homepages)
> redmine.postgresql.org
> jdbc.postgresql.org
> postgresopen.org
> developer.pgadmin.org (sandbox, Jenkins)
> babel.postgresql.org (Translation services)
>
> Redundant services (minimal impact expected):
> ns2.postgresql.org (other nameservers will still work)
> .us inbound mail relay (other MXs will still work)
> .us website front-end (should be removed from pool)
> FTP mirror (should be removed from pool)
>
> We anticipate this being the only whole-environment outage during
> this migration. Future outages will happen for individual systems
> as we migrate them to the new hardware.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Stephen
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