dsource.org Planned Outage Friday, March 2

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Brad Anderson" <brad at dsource.org> wrote in message 
news:es6pch$2iua$1 at digitalmars.com...
> All,
>
> dsource.org will have a planned outage tomorrow, Friday, March 2.
>
> * The site will be down most of the day, starting at 9am EST (GMT -5)
>
> * Duration is unknown, but I would expect 8 hours.  Hopefully it will be 
> shorter.
>
> * We are transferring to slicehost.com hosting, so the result should be
> stupid-fast everything and tons of bandwidth.  Also, the db locking 
> problem
> has been back the past week or two and I hope this move takes care of 
> whatever
> software package on the current server is causing it.

Yaaaay!

> * Unfortunately, this process is bound by the upstream bandwidth from the
> current server to the slice.
>
> * To prevent write activities while doing the transfer (wiki, svn, forums,
> tickets, etc.), the entire site needs to be down.  I am going to attempt 
> some
> configuration things, so the site possibly will be up read-only, but if 
> that
> doesn't work, the entire thing will be inaccessible.
>
> * I will be on Freenode IRC in #d as *boorad* for the /occasional/ status 
> check.
>
> * I apologize if this message sounds like I'm treating you all as
> crack-addict fiends who can't bear to be 'without' for any period of time.

But... I am!