Planned server outage on August 15th

[Rick]

Apparently PowWeb are doing some upgrading of database software on some of their server machines. The machine the OAS websites are hosted on will be affected. They say the outage should not last more than 15 minutes or so...

This affects www.orpington-astronomy.org.uk and gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk as well.

[Rick]

Guess what... 

Your database is hosted on one of these servers and, as a result, Monday morning there should be approximately 15 minutes during which your database will not be accessible--at this time, we'll be copying and upgrading your database to run using MySQL 5.

I don't think that previous upgrade worked... 

P.S. As a reminder, we had previously upgraded your server to MySQL 5, but the server did not perform quite as we expected. We had temporarily moved it back to running on MySQL 4.1 while we explored the issue further. Our testing indicates that we have worked out the earlier issues, and on Monday, we will upgrade your server to MySQL 5 again.

So if things go AWOL on Monday... 

[Rick]

If this morning's performance is anything to go by...