Tonight during our scheduled maintenance window, the servers palm.forest.net and tangerine.forest.net will undergo RAM upgrades. Each server will be down for approximately 5 to 15 minutes between the hours of 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM Pacific Standard Time. Every effort will be made to minimize the servers' offline time.

Please note: Palm is a mail server. Email will be unavailable while the server is offline. Inbound mail will be spooled on sending servers are delivered after the maintenance interval. Palm does not relay outbound mail itself, it works with one of our outbound mail hubs here so this event should have no impact on outbound email.

Tangerine is a database server running mySQLv4. Dynamic content on several of our other hosting servers may be affected during the maintenance interval.

Performance of both servers should be improved after their upgrades.

Palm is in need of emergency hardware maintenance. We are taking the server down at this time and downtime should not exceed 30min.

UPDATE: Palm.forest.net is back online.

This morning, palm.forest.net (formerly infoasis mail server) had a hard drive allocation error and had to be restarted. The server is up and running again now. Downtime was aproximately, 5min.

We have almost completed server moves to our new Seattle facility. Our DNS and mail servers will be moving over the next few nights. At this rate, we may be able to shut down the Bothell facility as early as next week after the weekend moves complete.

We will post updates concerning the mail servers at least 12 hours before we move them.

Tomorrow evening, Thursday the 27th, we will be taking the infoasis mail server down at 5:00pm for about an hour to upgrade the hardware and software. We will be moving the system to a Mac OS X server, which tends to handle CommuniGate's multithreading better than the FreeBSD server on which it's currently running.

We will post a new notice when the upgrade is complete.

The problem with the spam filtering on palm.forest.net has been discovered and corrected. A misconfiguration of the SMTP server's filtered IP addresses was the culprit; a more complete explanation will follow when our investigation is complete.

Due to the fact that we had to turn Postini off and back on again, and had to delete the accounts that had been created previously, your Postini accounts will be recreated and you will receive a new activation message from the system.