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The Flat Earth Society => Announcements => Status Notices => Topic started by: xasop on March 02, 2015, 04:10:18 AM

Title: Scheduled maintenance, 2015-03-05
Post by: xasop on March 02, 2015, 04:10:18 AM

The forum, wiki and IRC will be going offline for up to two hours on 2015-03-05, between 05:00 and 07:00 UTC.

For convenience, this means:

EST (USA east coast):
2015-03-05, 00:00-02:00

UTC (UK):
2015-03-05, 05:00-07:00

AEDT (Australia east coast):
2015-03-05, 16:00-18:00


This maintenance is being initiated by the hosting provider in order to rectify a security issue with the virtualisation software used for the VPS. While there is a two-hour window allocated, the actual downtime will likely be much less. For more information, see the Linode status page (http://status.linode.com/incidents/2dyvn29ds5mz) for this maintenance.

We will be taking this opportunity to install security updates on the server which hosts the forum, wiki and IRC. These will be non-disruptive to functionality, as the server is running a stable OS release that gets critical fixes only.

Title: Re: Scheduled maintenance, 2015-03-05
Post by: xasop on March 05, 2015, 07:15:02 AM

Maintenance was over fairly quickly; however, as it was carried out by the hosting provider and I was busy at work at the time, I failed to notice that the forum didn't come back up properly afterwards. Sorry for the resulting downtime, but everything is back to normal now.

Title: Re: Scheduled maintenance, 2015-03-05
Post by: Ghost of V on March 05, 2015, 07:19:47 AM

Thanks for maintaining the forums. This place is great.