digital.forest Technical Support
News archive: laurel.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.

Update @ 2:03pm PDT: Laurel is now once again accepting FTP connections
Update @ 12:11pm PDT: Laurel is now back up and processing Lasso

Currently Laurel is experiencing a problem regarding the processing of Lasso 3.6. It seems to 'time-out' whenever it is thrown certain Lasso code. Our system administrator is researching what is causing this problem and anticipates that this problem should be resolved by noon.

We will keep this post updated if new information becomes available.

-digital.forest technical support

posted by digital.forest at 07:43 AM on Friday, April 21, 2006
Categories: Hosting Servers, Lasso 3 Servers, laurel.forest.net

Laurel is currently exhibiting some problems. We are actively determining what the problem is and are currently performing multiple diagnostics in order to get the machine stable again.

Laurel should be back online by 8:30 PM PST.

Please monitor this site for any further updates.

posted by at 07:12 PM on Friday, March 3, 2006
Categories: laurel.forest.net

Laurel will be offline for about 10-15 min while we perform some much needed disk maintenance. Lasso has been acting up on there and this should take care of it.

posted by Damian A. at 02:26 PM on Monday, August 9, 2004
Categories: laurel.forest.net

Laurel is currently down for Tech Tool maintenance, and will be up as soon as possible.

Update:
Techtools turned up some software incompatibilities, we are now running a OS reinstall.... user files will not be affected.

Update:
Software reinstalled.. now making last minute configs.

posted by Nick M. at 03:45 PM on Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Categories: Hosting Servers, laurel.forest.net

The server 'laurel.forest.net' will be down for a while tonight. We'll be restoring some files from backup to get it running again. Details will be posted here when it is complete.

Update: 23:05 The issue was traced to a Lasso settings file that was corrupt. It was restored from backup. Please note that recent changes to Lasso settings have been overwritten by this file restore, so check your Lasso settings and make sure they are correct.

Thanks for your patience.

posted by Chuck G. at 06:47 PM on Monday, May 26, 2003
Categories: laurel.forest.net

Those who are hosted on laurel have noticed that there has been an issue with it and that it has been hanging a lot recently. Diagnostics tools were run on it today, a clean copy of the operating system was installed (which included a FirmWare update) and Webstar has been upgraded from 4.3 to 4.5. No User files were changed and there should be no changes to lasso.
In end effect, laurel's uptime and stability should be a lot better from here on.

posted by Damian A. at 12:40 PM on Saturday, February 15, 2003
Categories: Hosting Servers, laurel.forest.net

Laurel is presently down for emergency hardware maintenance.

We should have it back up within 30 minutes.

Update, 9:54 AM
Service has been restored.

posted by Peter D. at 09:54 AM on Thursday, January 23, 2003
Categories: laurel.forest.net

Laurel needs a operating system reinstall which should not take more than 20min of downtime. NO user files will be affected.

Update - 11:15am
Laurel is now back online.

posted by Damian A. at 10:33 AM on Wednesday, January 8, 2003
Categories: laurel.forest.net

laurel.forest.net is now back online.

laurel.forest.net is down for emergency maintenance to repair directory corruption.

posted by at 07:21 PM on Thursday, October 17, 2002
Categories: laurel.forest.net

Laurel is down for emergency maintenance.

Laurel is now back online.

posted by at 05:42 PM on Thursday, October 10, 2002
Categories: laurel.forest.net

Laurel has being hanging over the last couple of days. We are now running Techtools on it to resolve any file system errors. It should be offline for no more than 30 minutes. Thank you for your patience.

posted by Damian A. at 10:47 AM on Monday, September 9, 2002
Categories: Hosting Servers, laurel.forest.net