Extended downtime next Tuesday, December 13th

[mark]

Our hosting provider, ServerBeach, will be performing some maintenance on our servers next week. They're going to be unplugging and carrying them across the data center and reinstalling them in a new location. They're doing some reorganization and our rack is one of the ones affected.

The main impact from this is that Dreamwidth will be hard down (no response at all and no maintenance page) from 9AM to 11AM PST (1700 to 1900 UTC) on Tuesday, December 13th. There is a secondary impact in that when we come back up, none of our caches will be warm. The site will be slow for some period of time after it comes back -- up to several hours.

I will post again when we get closer to the outage. As always, we will update our @dreamwidth Twitter account as this happens.

Comments

[kickair8p]

We should own the goddamn servers! Then this wouldn't happen! ::giggle!:: Sorry, couldn't resist the AO3 ref. So, uhmmm, good luck?

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[mark]

I'd love to, honestly. That has never really been feasible though because we never have enough money in the bank to really afford dropping $50k on some servers. It would make long term sense because we could host all of the servers for a lot less than we pay per month now, but the break even point would be ~1 year down the road.

I've thought about doing a fund drive to make this happen. Never made it happen though. There are some advantages to having the servers be at a managed facility...

[andrewducker]

If it would make you more profitable after only one year then it sounds like the kind of thing that would be worth selling permanent accounts for.

(To me, anyway, I don't have access to all of your figures.)

[denise]

If it were just the money, going colo would probably make more sense, but there are a few other advantages to staying hosted at the moment! It's kind of 50/50.

[andrewducker]

That makes sense. Having someone else manage things for you does simplify them a lot, I'd have thought.

[denise]

Not having to wake up in the middle of the night for a visit to the colo facility will be a major benefit for at least the next two years, I'm thinking. You don't need website and kid. :)

[perlandria]

Yikes! Yes! Please sleep whenever you can.