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Site Downtime Tonight: 21:00 UTC

posted by NCommander on Friday March 21 2014, @04:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the look-scheduled-downtime-what-a-novelty dept.
We need to do some maintenance operations on both the webserver and database servers. We expect that we're going to have to offline mysql for awhile, and as such the site will be down while the database is. We expect the work to be approximately 15-20 minutes, but scheduling a full hour in case something goes wrong.

During this period, IRC, as well the wiki will remain up as they're on separate boxes, so you can reach us there. We'll post news to the wiki if for whatever reason we remain down for more than an hour.

Sorry about any inconvenience
 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Thexalon on Friday March 21 2014, @04:21PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday March 21 2014, @04:21PM (#19359)

    What's this "Slash" I see next to the story? Is that the guy from Guns 'N' Roses?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by RobotMonster on Friday March 21 2014, @04:31PM

    by RobotMonster (130) on Friday March 21 2014, @04:31PM (#19365) Journal

    What's this "Slash" I see next to the story?

    It's slang for urinate, as in "I need to take a slash."
    Seems appropriate, as the site needs to "go down for maintenance" :-)

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 21 2014, @04:53PM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday March 21 2014, @04:53PM (#19374) Homepage

      If "slash" is "urination," I'd hate to think what "beta" is.

      Also, downtime during prime trolling hour? But how will I earn -1, Troll with IRC posts? Bah.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by NCommander on Friday March 21 2014, @04:31PM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Friday March 21 2014, @04:31PM (#19366) Homepage Journal

    I misclicked on the topic index. Corrected.

    That being said, if we do something about slashcode itself, slash is probably the right topic which is why we didn't delete it.

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