All the machines, virtual servers or not, and services hosted in the
main
cabinet. This includes hosting and email services.
August 26th 2008, between 19h00 and 21h00 EDT (-0400). Outages described
below will occur between 20h00 and 21h00, EDT. However, we hope to limit those
outages to 30 minutes (so between 20h00 and 20h30).
The main switch will be replaced. This will provoque short network outages
for each of the hosted servers.
The current switch is full and show signs of weaknesses. We prefer to
replace it before a complete outage.
See the rapport
d'intervention (fr). Note that this outage will begin with a general outage
affecting all servers when the core router will be replugged. Then every
machine will be replugged one by one, which should provoke a few minutes of
outage for each machine. It is also possible that this procedure fails to
function properly and that we go forward with a quick and dirty unplugging and
replugging of everything.
If this intervention is too problematic for you or your organisation, please
let us know within 24h to see if we can arrange otherwise.
Also not that the sysadmin blog will be updated if the
intervention is changed in any way or if we experience problems or delays.