Sent from my iPod On 24 Feb 2010, at 12:00, users-request(a)lists.bitfolk.com wrote: > Send users mailing list submissions to > users(a)lists.bitfolk.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > users-request(a)lists.bitfolk.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > users-owner(a)lists.bitfolk.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Maintenance scheduled for dunkel, 1 hour, 2010-02-26 0630Z > (Was: Re: 2010-02-22 1559Z: Unscheduled power cycle of > server > dunkel) (Andy Smith) > 2. migrating mail to gmail (Duggie) > 3. Re: migrating mail to gmail (Ian Lovingboth) > 4. Re: migrating mail to gmail (Duggie) > 5. Re: migrating mail to gmail (Jocke Selin) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:14:19 +0000 > From: Andy Smith <andy(a)bitfolk.com> > Subject: [bitfolk] Maintenance scheduled for dunkel, 1 hour, > 2010-02-26 0630Z (Was: Re: 2010-02-22 1559Z: Unscheduled > power cycle > of server dunkel) > To: users(a)lists.bitfolk.com > Message-ID: <20100223161419.GK15325(a)bitfolk.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello, > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:30:00PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: >> I can see no reason and nothing logged to explain this power outage. >> It also happened before on 2010-01-12 and 2009-10-07 so I suspect a >> faulty PSU. A loose cable also a slim possibility. I'll be >> scheduling a visit to the colo to check and replace in the next >> week, and a short downtime will be associated with this. >> >> I'll follow up soon with the planned date/time. > > I will be shutting this server down starting from 0630Z 2010-02-26 > i.e. this Friday morning UK time. I will attempt to do a suspend to > disk, so it may be some minutes before your VPS is shut down. > > If that doesn't work, a full shutdown/boot of your VPS will be > required. Please try to make sure your VPS does shut down and start > up again cleanly with all the services you expect to be running. If > you block ping, then allowing it from 212.13.194.71 would be a big > help to me in determining whether your VPS is working or not. > > I intend to change the power cable (slim possibility of loose pins) > and the PSU (small possibility of some intermittent fault) and > generally check that all components are secure. Based on past > results we potentially won't know for many months if that has fixed > things, but if it doesn't then the next step is motherboard swap. > > I expect Friday's work to take less than 1 hour. > > Cheers, > Andy > > -- > http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting >