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Just a reminder, tonight at 11 PM we will be performing an emergency maintenance on part of our electrical system. This will have an impact on a portion of our shared web and database servers, and eight dedicated and colocated servers. The shared hosting servers affected are:

acacia, acorn, alder, aralia, arrowwood, ash, aspen, avocado, balsa, balsam, bamboo, banana, banyan, bayberry, beech, bigleaf, blackberry, boojum, boxwood, bubinga, buckeye, cactus, cedar, cherry, chestnut, cholla, cinnamon, clover, columbia, commerce2, commerce3, cork, cottonwood, db, deerwood, dogwood, ebony, elm, evergreen, ficus, fig, filbert, fuji, gingko, grape, grapevine, hackberry, hazel, hemlock, hickory, ironbark, ivy, kentia, kola, kudzu, larch, laurel, lilac, lime, madrona, magnolia, mango, mangrove, maple, mesquite, mimosa, moringa, mulberry, myrtle, newninewire, ninewire2, olive, orchid, palmetto, papaya, pear, pecan, plum, poplar, privet, quince, redbud, sassafras, savin, sequoia, sherwood, snowberry, spiceberry, spruce, strawberry, sycamore, tamarack, teak, truffula, tutsan, walnut, woodpecker, yucca, yulan/fern

Every effort will be made to minimize the downtime. Our electricians have estimated the time required to complete the task at 2 hours.

Thank you for your patience and understanding while we strive to build a better facility.

Update 1:15 AM: The maintenance went very smoothly and was completed in under 90 minutes. We were able to supply alternate power to the few dedicated and colo servers involved in the maintenance. We also took the opportunity to replace some failed parts in a couple of servers (acorn for example whose fan inside the power supply had stopped working.)

Again, thank you so much for your patience during this critical maintenance interval.

bayberry.forest.net will be taken offline on 7:00 am PT on Thursday, April 23, 2003 for system maintenance. We will be resolving an issue with occasional freezing of the FileMaker database software installed on that machine. The server will be offline for up to one hour. Updates will be available on this web site. Thank you for your patience in this matter.

posted by Nick M. at 03:34 PM on Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Categories: bayberry.forest.net

Bayberry has been causing a problem ever since its upgrade to os 9.2.2 and webstar 4.5. Specifically the blueworld.lasso.zip file in the Java Modules folder seems to be the suspect. We removed it for a day or two, but found that it controls the other java modules in lasso. Reinstalling it only crashes the machine ever couple hours. We have once again removed it which will keep the server up and running. Friday evening we will be looking at this issue closer to see if we can find a solution.

Thank you for your patience.

posted by Damian A. at 04:29 PM on Thursday, March 6, 2003
Categories: Hosting Servers, bayberry.forest.net

Bayberry is currently undergoing some brief maintenance.

Expected downtime is less than 30 minutes.

08:08 PST
A short period of additional downtime will be required; several software updates haven't quite finished.

posted by Peter D. at 07:33 AM on Tuesday, March 4, 2003
Categories: Hosting Servers, bayberry.forest.net