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News archive: elm.forest.net

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.

Tonight we will be performing memory upgrades on a few machines in our datacenter. The maintenance will begin promptly at 8:30 PM PST. The downtime will be 10 minutes for each machine.

Machines being serviced in order:

cactus.forest.net
cinnamon.forest.net
elm.forest.net
orchid.forest.net

If you have any questions, feel free to a support ticket.

posted by at 03:26 PM on Thursday, March 9, 2006
Categories: Scheduled Maintenance, cactus.forest.net, cinnamon.forest.net, elm.forest.net, orchid.forest.net

The server elm is now back up.

posted by at 05:58 PM on Tuesday, January 14, 2003
Categories: elm.forest.net

elm.forest.net is undergoing some emergency system maintenance to correct an issue that is causing frequent downtime. It should be back up very shortly.

posted by Bill D. at 01:24 PM on Monday, January 13, 2003
Categories: Hosting Servers, elm.forest.net