Server Maintenance Thursday, January 27th

Jeff Greeson

Administrator
Staff member
At approximately 6:00pm CST on Thursday, January 27, trmk.org will entirely be offline for scheduled hardware maintenance. The procedure is scheduled for 2 hours; however, if all goes well, we'll be back well before that time.

At 4:30pm CST, the message forums will be locked down in order to preserve data integrity when the message forums are transfered to the new server.

This scheduled maintenance has been a long time coming. We will be replacing our server that has been in service for approximately 3 years. She's been quite the pain recently as evident from our recent extended outages and it's just time to upgrade. This time around we will have a level of data redundancy with RAID 5 and a failsafe POWER plan that will minimize downtime due to power failure at the co-location facility.

If anyone is interested in the specs of the current server and the new server, let me know and I'll post them here.

Thanks for your patience. Hopefully this will finally eliminate the long periods of downtime we desperately want to eliminate.
 
We got a little late start on the switch over, but everything went really smooth. Expect some rough spots here and there, though. If you do see something really weird, please please reply to this thread. I think everyone will recognize that the pages load a lot faster. Let me know if you notice anything else.
 
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