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caker
Joined: 15 Apr 2003
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Location: Galloway, NJ
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 1:46 pm Post subject: Linode.com webserver maintenance - 12/30/2003 |
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During the afternoon (EST) of Tuesday, December 30th, 2003, the web server that runs Linode.com will be taken offline for a few short intervals, while new hard drives and additional RAM are being installed.
Obviously, during these intervals, the Linode.com website will be unavailable, along with reboots via Lish. I'll try to keep the downtime to a minimum, but it will go down aprox. three times, possibly for 10-20 minutes at a time.
This only affects the Linode.com website. All the host servers and your Linodes will continue to operate with no interruption.
This thread will be updated when the upgrades are complete.
Thank you!
-Chris |
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Garry
Joined: 15 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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What server are going to be affected ?
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Garry |
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caker
Joined: 15 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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Garry wrote: What server are going to be affected ?
Regards,
Garry
The server that serves the linode.com website. As in the server you're reading this page on right now, and the server that serves the member's area. That's it.
-Chris |
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schof
Joined: 18 Sep 2003
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Location: Los Angeles
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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caker wrote: Garry wrote: What server are going to be affected ?
Regards,
Garry
The server that serves the linode.com website. As in the server you're reading this page on right now, and the server that serves the member's area. That's it.
-Chris
To be clear (and please correct me if I'm wrong) all hosts will be affected, at least regarding reboots.
Reboot from SSH does a shutdown, not a reboot. In order to do a reboot, you need the Linode control panel. As long as you don't attempt a reboot or shutdown during the downtime, you should be fine. A minor point, but one that could bite someone if they're not careful. |
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caker
Joined: 15 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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schof wrote: To be clear (and please correct me if I'm wrong) all hosts will be affected, at least regarding reboots.
Reboot from SSH does a shutdown, not a reboot. In order to do a reboot, you need the Linode control panel. As long as you don't attempt a reboot or shutdown during the downtime, you should be fine. A minor point, but one that could bite someone if they're not careful.
"reboot" from inside your Linode does a halt/shutdown and there won't be a way to boot it back up until the db/webserver comes back online.
I'd anticipate downtime to be very short, probably two short reboots, and potentially one longer (10-20 minutes) while only the data that changed from the previous reboot is synced to the new drive. So, even if you do find yourself in that situation it will only be a few minutes that the site is unavailable.
Issuing a shutdown, boot, or reboot via Lish will have no effect while the db/webserver is down, since it inserts jobs into the queue just as the LPM (control panel) does.
Hope that clears it up :)
-Chris |
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Garry
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| Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Trust me not to read it correctly :oops: |
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caker
Joined: 15 Apr 2003
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Location: Galloway, NJ
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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All done!... Now I can eat :)
-Chris |
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