Multiple Legacy Shared Linux Hosting reboots

Message

We are currently in the process of upgrading our kernels modules on all of our legacy (DirectAdmin) linux hardware nodes to include the latest and greatest backup module. We need to reboot some of these nodes in order to do this.

As snapshots and backups are very important to us we would like to get this done ASAP.

When - The downtime window will be from tonight, the 18th of Oct 2010 between the hours of 22:00 and 23:00. Although the window length is an hour, the estimated downtime is about 10 minutes max per hardware node.

Whats effected - The following list of hardware nodes will be affected.

• Balin
• Camelot
• Da-Server1
• Ector
• Gorlois
• Igraine
• Morgana
  
  As always, we are sorry that downtime must occur but we need to ensure we have server snapshots of these critical hardware nodes.
  
  Once these hardware nodes are upgraded to the latest module version, it will not be necessary in the future to reboot in order to upgrade.
  
  This blog post will be updated once the maintenance is completed.

Update @ 22:25 : All servers have been rebooted, and services have returned to normal.