We were just informed one hour ago from our building management that an emergency maintenance window is scheduled for this Saturday morning, Sunday morning, February 25th, at 12:01AM PST. This maintenance window involves taking our entire building’s power offline for approximately 3 hours. The word from the building:
It was discovered by ABM Engineering during the power monitoring equipment installation, that a Phase C Conductor Cable on UPS #4 has been compromised to the point that immediate action to repair it is necessary or a ground fault will occur to the building systems.
Since only one of our three data centers is losing power, not all servers will be shut down. Unfortunately, our core routers and our upstream providers are in that data center, so there will be no network to any servers during the window. Gaah.
Since we have advanced (albeit limited) warning of this event, we will be onhand to physically power off all of our equipment at 11:15PM PST. Barring any unforeseen issues (on our end or the building engineer’s) we plan on having everything back up by 4AM PST, hopefully much sooner.
This outage will affect everyone’s sites and email. We apologize for the inconvenience this no doubt causes, as well as for the short notice. We will be posting updates as possible during the outage.
What does all that man? It means because they have a live wire that they need to fix on the UPS… they have to shut down power to the entire building. They can’t have generators running because they don’t want to fry the electrician. But even though 2 of their 3 DNS Nameservers are in this building… and they have a backup up in San Francisco. All their servers will be down. That I don’t understand, except for some reason they where idiotic and put all 3 of their datacenters in the same freaking building. So you won’t miss much, its my sons birthday so perhaps this will save you from birthday pictures. (I will not be moving the entire site to my backup host for a 3 hour window.) If you need to really need email me at that time use my gmail.
Tags: Hosting, Site Update
