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  1. Defen Estrator

    Site Maintenance Friday noon PDT / 19:00 UTC (3 hours)

    Once the Wednesday maintenance fixes the backups, I'll be spending time Friday updating the operating system the server runs on. Hopefully things won't actually be down for 3 hours, but chances are there will be a few little things that need cleaning up as part of the update.
  2. Defen Estrator

    Site Maintenance midnight UTC Thu, 5PM PDT Wed (1hr)

    Starting 5PM Pacific Wednesday / 00:00 UTC Thursday, I'll be taking the Tower database offline to fix backups then restart to take advantage of a hardware upgrade.
  3. Defen Estrator

    Tower Maintenance 2016-12-28 8PM PDT (4AM 12/29 GMT)

    I need to take the boards offline for a bit tomorrow in order to get the backups healthy again. It'll probably take about an hour total
  4. Defen Estrator

    Tower Maintenance Tomorrow

    In order to apply an important security update, I need to reboot the VPS (server) that the Tower runs on. I'll be taking the opportunity to do some other maintenance as well, and expect it to take about an hour in total. Start time: 9PM PDT Saturday, Oct 22nd (4AM UTC on Sunday, Oct 23rd)
  5. Defen Estrator

    Tower maintenance Sunday night/Monday morning

    Starting at 8PM on Sunday the 27th (3AM Monday UTC) I'll be taking the Tower offline for some maintenance. I need to rebuild our database replication, and also improve the encryption settings a bit on the webserver.
  6. Defen Estrator

    Tower maintenance Monday evening/Tuesday morning

    Starting 8PM PDT on Monday the 26th (3AM UTC Tuesday), I'll be doing some maintenance on the Tower that could take up to 4 hours. The webpage will be down, but IRC will still be available. Our existing operating system is too old to get updates anymore, so we need a new one. I'll be setting...
  7. Defen Estrator

    Site host reboot Oct 21st

    Our host needs to reboot our server to apply a security update and will be rebooting us on Oct. 21st, 7AM UTC (midnight PDT). Hopefully it'll only be down for a few minutes, but I'll try to give it at least a quick check afterwards.
  8. Defen Estrator

    Tower maintenance Sunday Sept. 13th

    This weekend, I'll be migrating our old server operating system to a newer one, so that we can use some shiny new software (and because our old operating system is no longer getting security support). For the curious, the old is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and the new will be Debian 8. I'll be building...
  9. Defen Estrator

    Site maintenance, this Wed night/Thu morning

    Our host has found some hardware issues with the server the site is hosted on, so we need to move it to a different one. I'll be migrating it tomorrow, August 12th from 10PM PDT to midnight (August 13th, 5AM-7AM UTC)
  10. Defen Estrator

    Tower maintenance this weekend

    Now that we have a shiny new backup server, it's time to actually copy the data over. This is likely to cause some forum weirdness, so I plan to disable the site during the copy. This will be from 9PM to 11PM California time on Saturday the 23rd (4AM to 6AM UTC).
  11. Defen Estrator

    Server maintenance Sunday, March 8th

    At 1PM UTC (6AM PDT), our hosting company will be rebooting our server to apply Xen security patches. Their maintenance window is 2 hours, but the actual maintenance will hopefully be much shorter.
  12. Defen Estrator

    Maintenance downtime 2014/5/11

    Good news: Linode has upgraded their plans, so we get a shiny new upgraded server! Bad news: this means some downtime. Also, our database backups are broken, so I'll be fixing that while I'm at it. I'll be starting on Sunday (tomorrow), 8PM PDT (3AM Monday UTC), and the site will be down...
  13. Defen Estrator

    Site maintenance, Saturday 4/27

    So the boards need a restart for the database server, as well as a reboot or two to take advantage of more hardware resources on the host. I'll be doing this at 9PM PDT on 4/27 (4AM UTC on 4/28). The maintenance will take up to 3 hours, and the boards will probably be up and down during that time.
  14. Defen Estrator

    Site maintenance May 25th/26th

    The host, Linode, will be rebooting our server between 2AM and 5AM UTC/GMT (or 10PM to 1AM on US East Coast, 6PM to 9PM West Coast) in order to apply a security update. The website will be completely offline during some or all of the window, but IRC will still be available.
  15. Defen Estrator

    site maintenance Dec 11th/12th

    Well, we've managed to outgrow the server again and need to upgrade our plan a notch. Unfortunately, this does involve some downtime. I'll be doing the upgrade Sunday night, 8PM PDT (4AM Monday UTC). The host estimates that moving will only take 12 minutes (for a total of around 15 minutes of...
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