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Scheduled Downtime: Saturday, July 31st

Discussion in 'Announcements' started by Lord Ravenclaw, Jul 29, 2010.

  1. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    DLP (and associated websites and services) will be down on Saturday, July 31st at any time from 9am to 11am EST. The server will be down an estimated 10-30 minutes for a hardware upgrade.

    We will be getting additional (750GB) of non-redundant storage for backups and scratch disk space to supplement our redundant 250GB of storage.

    Additionally, we received a free gigabit port upgrade allowing for greater concurrency.

    Services offline:

    • DLP Forums
    • PayPal donations
    • PatronusCharm
    • DLP IRC

    SoftLayer was kind enough to give us this upgrade for $5/month versus the normal cost of $60/month.

    With extra storage space, avatar and sig space will be bumped up and other data-heavy services may follow.

    Depending on when I wake up, things such as DLP IRC may take longer to come back.
     
  2. Gizmore

    Gizmore Minister of Swedish Affairs DLP Supporter

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    SoftLayer o/
     
  3. silverlasso

    silverlasso Minister of Magic DLP Supporter

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    Wow. That is definitely awesome...it's pretty much a steal, at that price.
     
  4. Oz

    Oz For Zombie. Moderator DLP Supporter

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    Thank God you picked a day I'll most likely not be on IRC for. :v
     
  5. Clerith

    Clerith Ahegao Emperor ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    Oooh, new shinies.

    Looking forward to that!

    Site down feels kinda weird, though =p
     
  6. fanficlover

    fanficlover Fourth Year

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    And why were Softlayer so generous to us?

    Is it something they offer to all non profit/community sites?
     
  7. Antivash

    Antivash Until we meet again... DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    Raven said (in IRC) that its because we've been customers so long... ¯\(o_º)/¯
     
  8. Richard

    Richard Supreme Mugwump

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    That's really kick ass. Way to go.
     
  9. Seratin

    Seratin Proudmander –§ Prestigious §– DLP Supporter

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    Fuck yes. I approve of this massively. (Especially since I'll be working during the downtime.)
     
  10. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    While the upgrade started a bit late, we are back up and running with an additional 750GB of HDD space and a connection an order of magnitude faster.
     
  11. Jon

    Jon The Demon Mayor Admin DLP Supporter

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    Clearly Raven is selling us out to xion... increasing xions power hoping we wouldn't notice.


    ....

    Well I for one welcome our returning robot overlord.
     
  12. Antivash

    Antivash Until we meet again... DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    Awesome. And I was asleep the entire time. 8D No DLP Downtime = <3
     
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