"The base laid plans of mice and men..."

OK, so I thought I'd schedule this a week in advance and plan it all out so it goes smoothly and my blood pressure remains in the normal range. I contact our hosting company to request that a remote console be connected to the server on the 23rd so that if the server does not boot up cleanly we can diagnose the problem and fix it ourselves if no hardware changes are required. Within a couple of hours of this request the server goes down.

I send in a request indicating the server is down and to investigate. As it turns out they restarted our server by mistake. Well, to make a long story short the server has been rebooted and all services seem to be running fine so forget about the maintenance I scheduled for next Monday, it's done.

Now to tell them to cancel the request for the remote console and hope we don't get another reboot in the process...

Ken

P.S. Thanks to Marcus Denker through whom I have to relay requests to our hosting company as he is still responsible for maintaining that account.

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 11:03 -0500, Ken Causey wrote:

The community server has been running steadily now for nearly 300 days. In the past couple of years we have had some difficulty when we have neared 1 year of uptime. Call it superstitious if you like but I've decided that I will restart the system on August 23, 2010 at 16:00 UTC and hopefully prevent a recurrence of the events of past years.

I don't expect any difficulties and there should be no more than a few minutes of downtime after which all services should continue as normal.

Ken Causey