[Planned Maintenance] RAM upgrades on various machines - Sept 14th & 15th, 2005

[Todd Mitchell]

Site5 Internet Solutions, Inc. maintenance notification [Planned]:

Date: 09/14/2005 & 09/15/2005
Start time: 03:00 GMT
Estimated end time: 13:00 GMT

Services/Equipment: See below
Type of work: Hardware Upgrade
Purpose of work: Insert Additional RAM
Impact of work: Loss of connectivity for less than 15 minutes/machine

In Site5's ongoing effort to provide the best possible web hosting environment available to our clients, Site5 will be inserting 2 GBs of additional DDR ECC registered RAM into the following machines:

Sept 14th, 2005
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traffix (216.118.97.133)
atlas (216.118.97.134)
nocsmasher (216.118.97.135)
limitbreaker (216.118.97.136)
interblaster (216.118.97.137)
copernic (216.118.97.138)
keras (216.118.97.140)
moiras (216.118.97.141)
artemis (216.118.97.142)
cheiron (216.118.97.143)
eos (216.118.97.144)
ophira (216.118.97.146)
dianthe (216.118.97.147)
neysa (216.118.97.149)
melia (216.118.97.150)
perseus (216.118.97.151)
leto (216.118.97.153)
tiresias (216.118.97.154)
menelaus (216.118.97.157)
demodocus (216.118.97.158)
antinous (216.118.97.159)
ismarus (216.118.97.160)

Sept 15th, 2005
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leucothea (216.118.97.161)
orestes (216.118.97.162)
fates (216.118.97.163)
seafaring (216.118.97.164)
phoenicians (216.118.97.166)
peony (216.118.97.168)
delbin (216.118.97.169)
naida (216.118.97.170)
alida (216.118.97.171)
pythia (216.118.97.172)
stacia (216.118.97.173)
timeus (216.118.97.175)
loxias (216.118.97.176)
minta (216.118.97.177)
zenos (216.118.97.178)
hali (216.118.97.179)
eleni (216.118.97.180)
lapetus (216.118.97.181)
hestia (216.118.97.182)
rhea (216.118.97.183)
musus (216.118.97.184)
maia (216.118.97.186)
dione (216.118.97.187)


Should you have any questions or concerns related to the abovementioned maintenance, please feel free to contact us http://site5.com/about/contact.php.

Regards,

Todd Mitchell
Site5 Internet Solutions, Inc.


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[GMINI03]

why only some machines and not all?

[DavidL]

Thanks Site5! Its good to see a host that performs upgrades BEFORE the server gets overloaded. This is a huge plus imo.
GMINI03, Maybe they are doing a few servers here and there. To put 2 gig of ram in each server is a costly project. Lets hope they make it around to yours

[Beau Henderson]

Originally Posted by GMINI03

why only some machines and not all?

Not an official answer but:

- Might not be required or necessary.
- Might be a legacy box which will evenually be updated, both hardware & software wise.
- Motherboard may not support the extra RAM.

I believe the RAM updates are covering the majority, if not all, of our superhosting and reseller servers.

[alfa]

so whats the total RAM? My server already has 1 gig + 2 gig = 3 gigs of RAM?

[DieNamicz]

this is great!.

[GMINI03]

Originally Posted by Beau Henderson

Not an official answer but:

- Might not be required or necessary.
- Might be a legacy box which will evenually be updated, both hardware & software wise.
- Motherboard may not support the extra RAM.

I believe the RAM updates are covering the majority, if not all, of our superhosting and reseller servers.

Fair enough I suppose ... my server already has 2gb of ram.

Just wondering why this email was sent to me since the server I am on is not on the list. Was it easier to send to everyone rather then the clients affected?

[KelliShaver]

I believe the RAM updates are covering the majority, if not all, of our superhosting and reseller servers.

Well, the majority of them, perhaps, but not all, as Ion isn't on the list (reseller). No complaints here, though, as I haven't experienced any problems and it's certainly not hurting for RAM according to the server status reports in cPanel.

[catfished]

Skylla is not on the list even though it's still screwed up.

[[ed]]

Originally Posted by catfished

Skylla is not on the list even though it's still screwed up.

I haven't been following the trouble on Skylla, unfortunately - but has it been discovered that memory usage is the problem? If not, adding more RAM to a server won't help much ;-)

[rebkell]

traffix has been down for around 30 minutes, are we having a problem?

[DieNamicz]

45 minutes.. lol

I was working in shell when BAM!!.. got kicked out..Lol

[dizastor]

Originally Posted by rebkell

traffix has been down for around 30 minutes, are we having a problem?

They forgot to wear their anti-static wrist band and fried the whole thing... too much dragging their feet on the carpet me thinks.



Ok, so I don't know why it's still down, but I'm lurking because my sites are on traffix also.

[rebkell]

Look something like this?

(Thu Sep 15 00:04:53 2005):

The system is going down for system halt NOW!

and still down

[DieNamicz]

i average about 20 clicks an hour with adsense.. how much do u think i have lost?...

no biggie..i have paid all my bills this month..

As long as this will make the server better (they are superb without the additional ram (atleast in traffix) ) i have no problem..

[Steven Byrd]

It's down because their adding the RAM as this notice says. That error means they shutdown the server.

Traffix seems to be almost up, so it should be fully up shortly.

[DieNamicz]

Sites are back up!!!

[Todd Mitchell]

Hello,

Traffix had some serious motherboard issues, which resulted in more downtime than anticipated. We've resolved the mobo issues and the machine is back online. We'll probably be swapping the motherboard tonight or tomorrow.

As for the machines being upgraded. They'll have 4 GBs total.

And machines that aren't on the list will be upgraded at a later date. This upgrade alone was $15,000.00 USD or so.

Todd

[rois]

I think this will be money well spent and will remove any doubts anyone might have about site5's long term existence. Good job.

[Mike-vf]

Hi all

I just lost my website! Thats ok because I had the email warning about 10 minutes before it went down !

10 minutes before 9.00am on a Thursday morning is a great time to drop a sever when you have uk sites!

Anyway it popped backup about 15 minutes later, but my sites can no longer connect to their databases!

Which is why I ask:
Is my Database on a different server to my site?

Would lack of memory stop the connections to the databases?



current stats.

Memory Used 78.6 %
Swap Used 72.02 %

Regards

Mike