Scheduled Downtime: Oct 20, 9 pm ET
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    The hosting company for the CMAA web sites has informed me that there will be a scheduled service outage for system maintenance on October 20 at 9 pm ET.

    The following sites will be affected:
    -- musicasacra.com (the main CMAA site)
    -- forum.musicasacra.com (this forum)
    -- media.musicasacra.com (the website where we store PDF files)

    The outage will probably be brief, but the hosting company has reserved up to two hours for the operation.

    Our other sites, Chant Cafe and New Liturgical Movement, will not be affected.
  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,700
    So what are we supposed to do with ourselves during that time?

    We expect you to schedule fun activities to keep us entertained, Chonak.
  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,508
    Can you please make a parallel site so that we can still process our free music requests during that time?
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,978
    I might need an essay on fonts to keep my spirits up.
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    Sure thing; bookmark this now for when the site is not available:
    https://www.typewolf.com/open-source-web-fonts
    Thanked by 4CharlesW Kathy CHGiffen bonniebede
  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,508
    Is it over yet? I feel a sense of impending doom every 16 years or so.

    The y2k of its generation.
    Thanked by 1eft94530
  • eft94530eft94530
    Posts: 1,577
    Maybe a Chant Cafe author can post a Service Outage article on Tue Oct 20 shortly before the start of downtime and we post fun comments to the article until a SysAdmin posts a comment telling us the Forum is back online?
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,978
    As we used to say when the IBM mainframe conked out, the system will be back up in 20 minutes. When the complainer called back in 15 minutes, we repeated that the system would be back up in 20 minutes.
    Thanked by 1chonak
  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,508
    Is it over? Can we talk now?
    Thanked by 1Ben
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
    Posts: 6,477
    This was the worst hour of my life.
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,978
    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...


  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    And it actually was about an hour.

    As it happened, I needed another ten-minute downtime to transfer us to a faster server, so I did that operation at 5:30 a.m.
  • francis
    Posts: 10,816
    So how was the downtime thingy for you? Sorry I missed it.
  • BenBen
    Posts: 3,114
    So how was the downtime thingy for you? Sorry I missed it.


    It was awful.
    Thanked by 3Adam Wood Salieri eft94530
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    And it lasted about an hour. (9-10 pm ET)
  • SalieriSalieri
    Posts: 3,177
    We're forming a support group.
    Thanked by 3Kathy francis eft94530
  • bonniebede
    Posts: 756
    is it bach yet
  • ClergetKubiszClergetKubisz
    Posts: 1,912
    Wait, the system was down for a while?
    Thanked by 1francis
  • francis
    Posts: 10,816
    Don't feel bad ClergetKubisz... I missed the who thing too.
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