With an increasing number of customers making the move to new technologies such as Lasso 6, it is necessary for us to consolidate our Lasso 3 servers in order to make the best available use of our resources and provide you with the best possible service. On Friday, September 5th, starting at 10:30 PM PST, will be merging senna.forest.net and sumac.forest.net with kentia.forest.net (the combined machine will eventually be known as kentia.forest.net)

The upgrade window will be about two hours, during which time your web site may be briefly unavailable. All data will be copied over to the new server, and the new server will assume the IP address and name of senna in addition to the machine's current name and IP address.

In the day or two following the upgrade, you may need to use the IP address of the new server (216.168.37.22) for FTP. Web services will not be affected.

Generally, the upgrade should require little or no action on your part. But there are several important changes, both short-term and long-term, that might affect you -- please see the notification e-mail that was sent to you earlier. Please feel free to contact us if you have any question!