"Networking Issues
August 25 2005 at 8:17 PM

We are recofiguring our networks and it is having some unintended consequences on the site's opperations. This is the fourth phase of our six phase plan of redoing the fundamental hardware and software stacks that run the site.

Please be patient...

There will be more maintenance tomorrow (Friday, read-only for an hour) and the following Friday (down for half a day), after which we hope to not touch the equipment, etc. for several years. God willing.

N54/Steven Roussey"


"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major menu problems just with potatoes."

"Saturday(today): 10 minute "read-only" mode. I need to check what is wrong with one of the storage arrays so we know what to plan for later in the week.

Monday: Update the OS on the webservers. No one should notice as we will pull one out at a time.

Tuesday: Likely one hour "read-only" mode as we replace the main storage array that we are checking on Saturday.

Friday (Sept 16th): Physically moving the equipment to a new rack. Nothing will be plugged in for a while, thus the hard downtime. Expect the site to be truly down all day. It should only take four hours, with only about one to two of complete downtime. I think we will have an extra server just sitting there with a plain maintenance page, but no read-only. So we are hoping for only a couple hours, but packing food, etc. in case we are there all day.

N54/Steven Roussey"


"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major menu problems just with potatoes."