[bitfolk] ~30 minutes of scheduled downtime for all customers in July

Hi folks, Some maintenance work is required to ensure that all BitFolk servers are as power efficient as possible. This includes: - Fitting 80plus certified high efficiency PSUs - Making sure that server fans have speed control - Making sure that various power management features are enabled in the BIOS - Re-metering servers that have already had work done All of this requires the hardware to be switched off. I am currently arranging a time to do this with BitFolk's colo provider (who have to be present as it's them who need to take new measurements). It will almost certainly be near the start of the week commencing Monday 20th July, starting after 7pm on the chosen evening. I'm letting you know now in order to give you as much notice as possible, and will later confirm the exact date. I will be shutting down every server in turn and hopefully keeping them off for no more than about 30 minutes each. I'm not intending to do suspend/restore, so therefore you can expect a clean shut down and then boot up again around 30 minutes later. I won't be able to give you an exact time of when I will do the work on each server, so it will just be one outage some time that evening. I will update http://twitter.com/bitfolk with my progress giving as much warning as I can (minutes) of each server being shut down. If anyone has any major and non-movable event planned for this time then I can probably reschedule this work, as long as you let me know as soon as possible please. It does have to happen some time before 26th July, however. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting "I remember the first time I made love. Perhaps it was not love exactly but I made it and it still works." -- The League Against Tedium