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List:       postgresql-general
Subject:    Re: [GENERAL] Planned downtime @ Rackspace - 2014-04-29 2100-2200 UTC
From:       Stephen Frost <sfrost () snowman ! net>
Date:       2014-04-29 20:53:21
Message-ID: 20140429205321.GV2556 () tamriel ! snowman ! net
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All,

  We have confirmation from Rackspace that the maintenance will begin in
  ~5 minutes.

  	Thanks!

		Stephen

* Stephen Frost (sfrost@snowman.net) wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
>   This is take-2 on this.  Apologies for the short notice.
> 
>   As some may be aware, we are currently working with Rackspace to
>   upgrade the PostgreSQL infrastructure systems which they graciously
>   host for us.  As part of these upgrades there will be downtime for
>   systems hosted there.
> 
>   To facilitate the migration of systems, Rackspace is upgrading the
>   switching infrastructure to Gigabit (from 100Mbps).  This upgrade will
>   happen on Tuesday, April 29th (today, for most of the world), between
>   2100-2200 UTC (5pm-6pm US/Eastern).  We hope the downtime will be
>   minimal but the window allows for up to 1 hour.  To be clear- this is
>   ~4 hours from the time of this email.
> 
>   This downtime will impact all systems hosted @ Rackspace as they are
>   upgrading the switch for us.  End-user services which will be impacted
>   include:
> 
>     yum.postgresql.org
>     wiki.postgresql.org
>     git master server (Committers only)
>     planet.postgresql.org
>     www.pgadmin.org, ftp.pgadmin.org
>     media.postgresql.org
>     commitfest.postgresql.org
>     developer.postgresql.org (Developer personal homepages)
>     redmine.postgresql.org
>     jdbc.postgresql.org
>     postgresopen.org
>     developer.pgadmin.org (sandbox, Jenkins)
>     babel.postgresql.org (Translation services)
> 
>   Redundant services (minimal impact expected):
>     ns2.postgresql.org (other nameservers will still work)
>     .us inbound mail relay (other MXs will still work)
>     .us website front-end (should be removed from pool)
>     FTP mirror (should be removed from pool)
> 
>   We anticipate this being the only whole-environment outage during
>   this migration.  Future outages will happen for individual systems
>   as we migrate them to the new hardware. 
> 
>     Thanks!
> 
>         Stephen

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