Crabapple has been upgraded to FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. The upgrade went smoothly; we had a minor hiccup on the first reboot, but it was quickly resolved. Downtime was less than 5 minutes.

On Wednesday, January 14 (that's tomorrow), starting at 5:00pm, we will be upgrading FreeBSD on Crabapple. As this is a minor upgrade, we intend to attempt a "live upgrade," meaning the OS will be upgraded as the system runs. The only downtime should be a reboot at the end of the process.

We will post another update when the upgrade is complete.

Service on Crabapple was restored at about 7:00pm. Total downtime was about two hours, which was longer than expected; however, the operation was a success, and the storage problems should be at an end. If you experience any problems with Crabapple, please let us know.

Due to some serious space issues on Crabapple's main disk, we will be bringing it down briefly this afternoon to install a new disk and redistribute some of the data. Downtime will begin at about 5:00pm.

crabapple.forest.net will be taken down for maintenance at 5:00pm on Wednesday, Feb. 12. We will be replacing the /usr disk that failed a couple weeks back, thus clearing up some space on /home.

The server crabapple.forest.net has suffered a hardware failure. We are working to recover from the failure and will have crabapple online as soon as possible. No user data was affected.

Update: The failure has been resolved, and crabapple is now back online. No user data has been affected.

phpMyAdmin on crabapple.forest.net will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes while we upgrade it to the latest version.

Update: phpMyAdmin 2.3.3 has been successfully installed on crabapple.forest.net.

We have updated some software on crabapple.forest.net for security reasons. Crabapple is now running:

- Apache 1.3.26
- CURL 7.9
- mod_ssl 2.8.10
- mod_perl-1.27

We also plan to upgrade the OS to FreeBSD 4.6, after which we will upgrade PHP to 4.2.2; these updates will wait for a server maintenance day since they will involve some downtime. None of the changes made today should affect existing code. mod_perl was not previously available.

We will be upgrading apache on butternut and crabapple today. Webhosting downtime on these two machines should not excede 3 minutes.