[Twisted-Python] Twistedmatrix.com: scheduled maintenance July 18th

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:14 PM Mark Williams <mrw at enotuniq.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The server that hosts twistedmatrix.com will be down for maintenance on
> Wednesday July 18th.  Our hosting company, Tummy.com, will be increasing
> the size of the /boot partition to accommodate the larger kernels typical
> of modern Linux distributions.  This requires a full reload of all
> partitions' data.
>
> The downtime is expected to be 24 hours, or through Thursday, July 19th.
> During the downtime no twistedmatrix.com sites will be available.
>
> Because Trac will be down, no pull requests should be merged between July
> 18th and 19th.
>
> Twisted's documentation will be inaccessible during that time as well.
>
> Note that this is the minimum maintenance necessary to keep
> twistedmatrix.com running.  We need money to realize improvements to our
> infrastructure, like newer hardware for the existing server and additional
> hosts that could continue to serve twistedmatrix.com during a maintenance
> window.
>

DNS could be pointed at an S3-backed website to serve a maintenance
message, at least.  Not optimal, but better than ECONNREFUSED I would
think.  I'd be happy to set this up and foot the bill - if someone provides
the content (I can make web pages but no one really wants that).

Jean-Paul


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> --
>   Mark Williams
>   mrw at enotuniq.org
>
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