http://www.fellowsites.org Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:29:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Time: 0600 UTC Wednesday (10:00pm PST Tuesday / 1:00am EST Wednesday) Duration: 15 Minutes (Estimated) Maintenance Description: Our data center provider will be performing some routine maintenance in the early morning of Wednesday, February 10th, 2010, starting at 0600 UTC (10:00pm PST Tuesday / 1:00am EST Wednesday). Service Impact: All sites ... http://www.fellowsites.org/2010/02/06/outage-notification-3/ Date: Friday, June 13, 2008 Time: 0601 UTC Friday (11:01 PM PDT Thursday / 2:01 AM EDT Friday) Duration: 4 hours (Estimated) Maintenance Summary: Periodically our datacenter providers must perform maintenance on the network systems in order to keep them operating optimally. This maintenance window has been planned for several months; however an issue ... http://www.fellowsites.org/2008/06/12/outage-notification-2/ The aforementioned server migration is now in progress. I'm doing this in batches of 10 or 15 sites at a time. I'll post again here when I feel like the process is complete (excepting, of course, a few fellows who asked for their migrations to be delayed). http://www.fellowsites.org/2008/04/23/server-migration-in-progress/ FellowSites will be migrating to a new server beginning at 12:00am PDT / 3:00am EDT / 0700 UTC on Wednesday, April 23, 2008. We're performing this migration because our current server is running an outdated operating system and was initially configured with drive partitioning that has proved unwieldy. The new server ... http://www.fellowsites.org/2008/04/21/upcoming-server-migration/ Several quick outages happened yesterday beginning around 2100 UTC (1:00pm PST, 4:00pm EST). The server was able to restart its own services and recover a few times, but around 0400 UTC (8:00pm PST, 12:00am EST) it became completely unresponsive and it was necessary for a technician at the data center ... http://www.fellowsites.org/2008/02/26/multiple-short-outages-yesterday/ We've added a new section to our site today: financial statements. The new page contains public records of our finances and is designed to increase our accountability and transparency to the Homestar Runner Wiki and FellowSites communities. From the new page, you can access a balance sheet and an income/expense statement, ... http://www.fellowsites.org/2008/02/02/introducing-financial-statements/ Here's the final report from the data center regarding last Friday's outage: We believe that a little after 8:30 P.M. MST on Friday, 1/25/2008 the janitor either accidentally or intentionally triggered the Emergency Power Off (EPO) system for UPS1. As a result of the EPO system activation, all customers equipment ... http://www.fellowsites.org/2008/01/29/update-on-last-fridays-outage/ We're terribly sorry for the recent outages. The first one (Friday night) was apparently caused by a power event at the datacenter, and the second (this morning) was planned (though I received no advance warning) to repair damage to some failing components which were thought to have contributed the power ... http://www.fellowsites.org/2008/01/27/explanation-for-recent-outages/ Sorry I didn't post anything sooner, but I do want to give you all a heads-up on what happened with the server maintenance a couple weeks ago. The important news is that at the last minute we decided not to upgrade to the higher specs I had mentioned in my ... http://www.fellowsites.org/2007/10/11/server-migration-update/ Date: Sept. 21, 2007 Time: 23:00 UTC (4:00pm PDT / 7:00pm EDT) Maintenance Description: We are upgrading to a new server that resides in a data center in Salt Lake City (the current server resides in Los Angeles). Our current server has dual 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon processors w/ hyperthreading and 3 ... http://www.fellowsites.org/2007/09/20/outage-notification/