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.

Update: Maintenance has been completed and tangerine is now running MySQL 4.1.18. If you experience any problems with your website and you are hosted on tangerine, either give us a call or open up a support ticket

Tonight we will be performing a software upgrade on tangerine.forest.net. We will be upgrading MySQL from version 4.0.24 to 4.1.18. A major compatbility problem between the two is the new password hash system, which we are disabling, thus this should only positively impact the customers using the MySQL software.

The maintenance will begin at 1 AM PST and will last until 2 AM PST. During this time the mysql service on tangerine.forest.net will spotty or completely unavailable.

Update: Upgrades on all three machines were successful

Tonight we will be performing a hardware maintenance on the machines listed below. The maintenance will begin at 8:30 PM PST and will last approximately 10 minutes per machine. The reason for this maintenance is to upgrade the memory on the machines to improve performance.

Machines being serviced:
banana.forest.net (Lasso 6)
jasmine.forest.net (FileMaker 7)
tangerine.foerst.net (MySQL 4)

There have been some problems over the last couple of days with the MySQL service in tangerine.forest.net. We will be attempting to resolve them today with some software updates and configuration changes; the changes will require at least one and possible a few reboots, but the downtime will be brief. We will post again when the work is complete.