Brief Network Maintenance July 20-22

This is just a quick announcement about some upcoming network maintenance.

Due to our load-balancing capabilities, most of this will be done with no disruption to our services. There are a few exceptions, though. We’ll be doing maintenance over the next few days in the early morning hours (between 1am and 5am US Eastern time — 5am and 9am UTC), the following services will be briefly disrupted (should be about 5-10 minutes each):

Tuesday Morning
– www.nearlyfreespeech.net
– members.nearlyfreespeech.net
– various error pages
– Member MySQL Node m9

Wednesday Morning
– Our email (e.g. support@nearlyfreespeech.net)
– Outbound mail sent from CGI scripts
– Member ssh & FTP
– phpMyAdmin server
– Email forwarding
– Member MySQL Node m4
– Member MySQL Node m6
– Member MySQL Node m7
– Member MySQL Node m8
– Member MySQL Node m23
– Member MySQL Node m25
– Most pools (a beta feature in limited testing — you know if you have one)

Thursday Morning
– Member MySQL Node m1
– Member MySQL Node m10
– Member MySQL Node m11
– Member MySQL Node m12
– Member MySQL Node m13
– Member MySQL Node m14
– Member MySQL Node m15
– Member MySQL Node m16
– Member MySQL Node m17
– Member MySQL Node m18
– Member MySQL Node m19
– Member MySQL Node m20
– Member MySQL Node m22
– Member MySQL Node m24
– Member MySQL Node m26

To reiterate, these disruptions will be very short (<10 minutes); you probably won't even notice them, but we wanted to let you know what's going on anyway. Although it's only a few minutes, we'll be changing a lot of stuff under the hood, which is an important step in helping us build a more reliable network. We wish it were possible to build a network with 100% availability, but we're still working on that. 🙂 In the meantime, this scheduled maintenance should definitely help us get a little closer. Thanks!

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1. Thanks for the update. Keep up the good work!

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