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The Flat Earth Society => Announcements => Status Notices => Topic started by: xasop on December 13, 2015, 12:47:43 AM

Title: Scheduled maintenance, 2015-12-15
Post by: xasop on December 13, 2015, 12:47:43 AM
The forum, wiki and IRC will be going offline for up to two hours on 2015-12-15, between 10:00 and 12:00 UTC.

For convenience, this means:

EST (USA east coast):
2015-12-15, 05:00-07:00

UTC (UK):
2015-12-15, 10:00-12:00

AEDT (Australia east coast):
2015-12-15, 21:00-23:00


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 (https://linode.statuspage.io/incidents/ngql6k6dm420) for this maintenance.

We will be taking this opportunity to install security updates. 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, 2015-12-15
Post by: xasop on December 15, 2015, 09:56:43 AM
This maintenance window will start in 4 minutes. Because it is being initiated by the hosting provider, I do not know precisely when the server will go down. However, normal operation will return within 2 hours.
Title: Re: Scheduled maintenance, 2015-12-15
Post by: xasop on December 15, 2015, 11:48:38 AM
We're back! For anyone who missed us, we missed you too. :-* Happy posting, and merry Christmas!
Title: Re: Scheduled maintenance, 2015-12-15
Post by: lolwut? on December 15, 2015, 01:51:02 PM
We're back! For anyone who missed us, we missed you too. :-* Happy posting, and merry Christmas!
thanks pardisfla! Happy xmas to you and your lovely wife!