Page 1 of 1

Planned Downtime/paradas planificadas/плановых простоев

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 2:48 am
by Fred
I'm planning to take the server down for a few minutes to resize the disk partitions sometime pretty soon (before next sunday evening western eu time).

I'm also planning some software upgrades on the box, this could have down/broken time too as I sort out configuration post updates.

The forum also needs some love, though that can wait and is less important.

Fred.

Re: Planned Downtime

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:53 pm
by Fred
I've been performing the non-downtime work and am making good progress! I'll probably complete the disk re-size by end of tomorrow. Expect brief down times during the next 48 hours or so. Hopefully nothing more than brief!

Fred.

Re: Planned Downtime/paradas planificadas/плановых простоев

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:14 pm
by ToxicGumbo
Image

You're killing me, dood! I gotta have my new posts!


-Jeff

Re: Planned Downtime/paradas planificadas/плановых простоев

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:54 pm
by Fred
Worst will be about 15 mins for the disk resize. The rest should be near instant like it was earlier. Notice that one? Didn't think so ;-)

Re: Planned Downtime/paradas planificadas/плановых простоев

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:58 pm
by Fred
Last time was 10 minutes, this time was 2 minutes, the service provider has upgraded their gear! :-)

The show is back on the road. I'll be taking down the forum for updates soon, but not for a few days, so I'll un-sticky this until then.

Fred.

Re: Planned Downtime/paradas planificadas/плановых простоев

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 8:34 am
by Fred
Sadly the apache upgrade didn't go as smoothly. They moved something to a variable, and I chose the wrong combo of keep/replace for the files, and they added a stack of new files, and as such, it failed to start during the update, and it took me a few minutes (upto 10?) to fix it. There was also a brief database offline period of about 1 or 2 minutes due to the way the uninstall process works for mysql packages. Anyway, that should be it for problems for a little while, fingers crossed.

Re: Planned Downtime/paradas planificadas/плановых простоев

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:51 am
by johntramp
Good work with the updates, Fred. I didn't notice a thing.

Re: Planned Downtime/paradas planificadas/плановых простоев

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 11:20 am
by Fred
I did, and panicked briefly! This is the first time that **I've** caused a problem with the server that has unnecessarily affected users. I'll try not to let it happen again.

Thanks anyway, though :-)