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Site briefly offline, Thursday, 2021-09-23 after 8 PM PST

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There are two types of maintenance which keeps us running.

1. Myself and mingstar maintaining the site software.
2. Maintenance by our hosting facility. Our hosting facility controls the hardware and software that our virtual servers run on.*

This time, it's (2). Our hosting facility has notified us that they will be upgrading our servers some time within an 8 hour window starting Thursday, 8 PM PST.

If there is an outage, it could last up to 60 minutes.

Pacific - 8 PM Thursday to 4 AM Friday
Mountain - 9 PM Thursday to 5 AM Friday
Central - 10 PM Thursday to 6 AM Friday
Eastern - 11 PM Thursday to 7 AM Friday

UTC - 03:00 Friday to 11:00 Friday

Please copy your posts into a text editor before posting. If the server disappears during this time, you'll won't lose your post.

To say this another way, the servers may be offline for up to an hour. We don't know when the outage will occur, but it will be between the times listed above.

* Server configuration is described in detail here.

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Re: Site briefly offline, Thursday, 2021-09-23 after 8 PM PST

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Bump.
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Bumping for visibility.
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Bumping for visibility.

Update: 9/24: The time period has ended.
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