[sf-lug] online!: Re: linuxmafia.com scheduled outage Sunday 2023-09-03 10am-6pm* US/Pacific

[Michael Paoli]

It's online and available again, as of hair before 1:30pm US/Pacific

linuxmafia.com host is now a VM ... and on much more supportable hardware
(like moved nearly two decades forward in hardware technology).

Still hosted by Rick Moen - so thanks Rick for the hardware and hosting, etc.!

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 9:42 PM Michael Paoli
<michael.paoli at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> linuxmafia.com scheduled outage Sunday 2023-09-03 10am-6pm* US/Pacific
> *guestimated the outage will be approximately 4 hours +-, but have
> scheduled 8 hour window "just in case".
>
> Anyway, earlier this evening, Rick and I arranged and have planned for
> that scheduled window.
> So, e.g. sf-lug at linuxmafia.com will be offline**,
> as will be everything using 96.95.217.99**
> **It may be pingable during much of that time, but server processes will
> be down for quiescent data consistent migration.
>
> Other hosts/servers (e.g. [www.]sf-lug.org) are independent and generally
> anticipated to continue to be online.
>
> And, purpose of outage - migrate existing host from very old marginally
> supportable hardware, to VM on much newer quite supportable hardware.
> That will also give that host full RAID-1 data coverage (which is
> redundancy, but is not backup).  In most other regards, the host
> will remain the same (highly identical data for most everything,
> VM virtual hardware about as similar as feasible to the existing
> physical, etc.) ... at least on the shorter-term, anyway.