PHP Upgrade On Gorlois, Priamus And Rivalin

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There will be an upgrade of the PHP versions on Gorlois, Priamus and Rivalin to PHP 5.2.12 this evening in order to fully sort an issue we've been having with Installatron. There should be only a few seconds downtime required as Apache restarts with the new version.

UPDATE: 18:10

All three servers have been successfully updated. Gorlois' had slightly more downtime than expected as an automated process restarted Apache in the background while PHP was being updated. This caused PHP to stop working for about 2 minutes.

UPDATE: 08:52 Tuesday Feb 2nd

As mentioned above the server Gorlois had some additional knock on problems after this upgrade. During the compile of PHP exim decided that it wouldn't accept e-mail from outside. This wasn't caught until the alerting system sent it's first reminder about the service being down some time after. Gorlois' SMTP service came back at 20:17 last night and people were able to send e-mail again and e-mail from outside started to flow. We don't believe any e-mail was lost during this window.