Re: Planned downtime @ Rackspace

All,

Unfortunately, Rackspace has had to post-pone this pending
finalization of the switch configuration.

We'll send out an update when we have a (new) finalized downtime
window.

Thanks,

Stephen

* Stephen Frost (sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net) wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> As some may be aware, we are currently working with Rackspace to
> upgrade the PostgreSQL infrastructure systems which they graciously
> host for us. As part of these upgrades there will be downtime for
> systems hosted there.
>
> Our first planned downtime will be for ~ 2 hours on Monday, April
> 28th, between 1500-2000 UTC (11am-4pm US/Eastern). We have requested
> that the outage be towards the end of that window (1800-2000 UTC), but
> there is no guarantee that they'll be able to support that request.
> Clearly, we hope the actual downtime will be less than 2 hours.
>
> This downtime will impact all systems hosted @ Rackspace as they are
> upgrading the switch for us. End-user services which will be impacted
> include:
>
> yum.postgresql.org
> wiki.postgresql.org
> git master server (Committers only)
> planet.postgresql.org
> www.pgadmin.org, ftp.pgadmin.org
> media.postgresql.org
> commitfest.postgresql.org
> developer.postgresql.org (Developer personal homepages)
> redmine.postgresql.org
> jdbc.postgresql.org
> postgresopen.org
> developer.pgadmin.org (sandbox, Jenkins)
> babel.postgresql.org (Translation services)
>
> Redundant services (minimal impact expected):
> ns2.postgresql.org (other nameservers will still work)
> .us inbound mail relay (other MXs will still work)
> .us website front-end (should be removed from pool)
> FTP mirror (should be removed from pool)
>
> We anticipate this being the only whole-environment outage during
> this migration. Future outages will happen for individual systems
> as we migrate them to the new hardware.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Stephen