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Old 26-07-11, 01:06 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default 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.
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Default 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.
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