Server maintenance

[LiroyvH]

Ola,

In light of the recent instability on some of the sub-servers, maintenance will be performed to multiple servers within our stack tomorrow to attempt patching the issue while we wait for the arrival of new hardware that will cope with the demand for resources here on simplemachines.org in a much better fashion.
Our current hardware is rather old, though robust, and we're glad to replace some components soon in order to process the demands for resources of modern usage.

Please be advised that during the maintenance window you may not be able to connect at all for short period of times, may get strange notices or will be redirected to a backup forum in the event that nodes go in to maintenance mode.

A definite start time and ETA is unfortunately not (yet) available but will keep people posted.
In the meanwhile, please bare with the sluggishness that may occur from time to time and the possibility of stress errors.

Thank you.

[Looking]

Glad to read that, good luck with it all.

[Colin]

Thanks for the work, Liroy.

[4Kstore]

Nice work, SMF servers with new clothes wiyaaa!

[kat]

[electricwildflower]

I was wondering why i kept getting

Temporarily Unavailable
Due to high stress on the server the forum is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.

but at least i know the problem thanks for the update

[LiroyvH]

The maintenance is planned for:
Thursday, Jan 24  --   ~ 10:00AM - 1.00PM (EST) (3PM - 6PM in GMT)

Please be advised that it may of course start slightly earlier and may take longer... It usually always ends up taking longer for some reason
Some servers will be moved around and i'll be modifying some server settings.

Let's see how Medusa copes after tomorrow.
(Multi-headed snake is what our stack is sometimes New hardware should be poison to them.)

[xrunner]

Please be advised that it may of course start slightly earlier and may take longer... It usually always ends up taking longer for some reason

Thank goodness I have some other hobbies to go to during the outage. 

[ApplianceJunk]

Done yet? What day is it?

[Mick.]

Awesome! 

[Arantor]

And ever since this was announced, the site has been fast for me.

[xrunner]

And ever since this was announced, the site has been fast for me.

That figures. You seem to have the magic touch. 

[Arantor]

Nah, not me, the server dudes at the rock face.

Me, I'm just a hanger-on that talks too much.

* Arantor waits for the inevitable culprits to agree with me

[mashby]

And ever since this was announced, the site has been fast for me.

I agree with that part.

[live627]

And ever since this was announced, the site has been fast for me.

I concur. This is weird.

[Deaks]

werd its been slow for me ... also this is when CoreISP says guys I havent started yet!!

[ApplianceJunk]

[LiroyvH]

The server maintenance has finished for today.
Please don't be surprised if it has some baby issues, maintenance will be rounded up tomorrow to terminate any bugs left.

Overall, everything should be much faster...
Posting *CAN* lag slightly, please don't worry about that.

[ApplianceJunk]

What took so long?

[Mick.]

Seems fast enuff