Apologies for the half hour outage
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 1:26 am
ForumGarden was down from 8:50am to 9:20am GMT+1 today while the site's host provider engaged in pre-emptive security fixes. As far as I can see we're back in one piece but the management apologizes for any inconvenience.
Here's the host's take on events:We contacted you yesterday regarding our scheduled reboot of US Central Zone A. As an update, this will begin at 1AM (EDT) tonight. We expect to have all instances rebooted by 8AM (EDT) on October 1st. In case you missed yesterday's notification, an issue has been discovered that could result in unwanted consequences for all servers running the Xen hypervisor, worldwide. This includes your service in US Central Zone A. To ensure the long-term security of our customers, we are proactively conducting the aforementioned emergency maintenance, which should incur minimal downtime, limited to 5-15 minutes for each affected server. This will require no action on your part, however, as it will necessitate a reboot upon completion, we are encouraging you to take a moment to ensure that your hosting environment is configured to resume all necessary operations post-reboot.
Here's the host's take on events:We contacted you yesterday regarding our scheduled reboot of US Central Zone A. As an update, this will begin at 1AM (EDT) tonight. We expect to have all instances rebooted by 8AM (EDT) on October 1st. In case you missed yesterday's notification, an issue has been discovered that could result in unwanted consequences for all servers running the Xen hypervisor, worldwide. This includes your service in US Central Zone A. To ensure the long-term security of our customers, we are proactively conducting the aforementioned emergency maintenance, which should incur minimal downtime, limited to 5-15 minutes for each affected server. This will require no action on your part, however, as it will necessitate a reboot upon completion, we are encouraging you to take a moment to ensure that your hosting environment is configured to resume all necessary operations post-reboot.