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brian · 26-07-11, 01:06 PM

Techwatch will need to go offline tonight for essential hardware maintenance - basically, the harddrive is failing and needs replacing, and that means a full reinstall of the OS and data as well.

The site will go offline tonight at midnight GMT, 7pm PST, for about 4-8 hours.

After which, we should be fine and no more server going offline.

Have already backed everything up, but just a heads up for everbody.

brian · 28-07-11, 03:25 PM

Really sorry for the unscheduled downtime this morning - all seemed fine after the harddrive replacement, but Apache completely failed for some reason.

I'm now getting all of TW copied to a second server, so if we have this problem tomorrow, I should be able to switch over to the other server within 10 minutes.

Bugger this for a game of soldiers.

26-07-11, 01:06 PM	#1 (permalink)
brian Administrator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inverness, Scotland Posts: 3,801 Thanks: 286 Thanked 1,697 Times in 595 Posts	Scheduled downtime tonight Techwatch will need to go offline tonight for essential hardware maintenance - basically, the harddrive is failing and needs replacing, and that means a full reinstall of the OS and data as well. The site will go offline tonight at midnight GMT, 7pm PST, for about 4-8 hours. After which, we should be fine and no more server going offline. Have already backed everything up, but just a heads up for everbody. __________________ Sky+, 1m motorised dish, Vu+ Duo HD PVR, Panasonic 42" G15 Plasma HDTV, Playstation 2 + 3, Not enough time...

28-07-11, 03:25 PM	#2 (permalink)
brian Administrator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inverness, Scotland Posts: 3,801 Thanks: 286 Thanked 1,697 Times in 595 Posts	Re: Scheduled downtime tonight Really sorry for the unscheduled downtime this morning - all seemed fine after the harddrive replacement, but Apache completely failed for some reason. I'm now getting all of TW copied to a second server, so if we have this problem tomorrow, I should be able to switch over to the other server within 10 minutes. Bugger this for a game of soldiers. __________________ Sky+, 1m motorised dish, Vu+ Duo HD PVR, Panasonic 42" G15 Plasma HDTV, Playstation 2 + 3, Not enough time...

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