Modevia Outage (Yes.. it was planned.)

modeviamike · Post by **modeviamike** » 20 Jun 2005 19:26

Hey everyone-

I thought this might be a good opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Mike, and I own the hosting company that donates hosting for Modified -- Modevia Web Services LLC (modevia.com). In case anyone was wondering why modified.ca was down for three hours tonight, it was a planned outage. We upgraded to a significantly faster server, which should make everyone happier. I've pasted a copy of the message that our clients received prior to the upgrade.

Greetings,

Over the past week, we've been preparing a new shared hosting server.
The new server, Ephesus, has over twice the processing power, working
memory, and disk space as our current primary server, Kallos. The plan
is to move everyone but streaming video clients to Ephesus. This action
will likely result in noticably faster load times and will provide us
with plenty of room to continue to grow.

In order to complete the transfer, we need to bring public access to
both servers offline. To accomodate this need, I've scheduled a service
window for Monday, June 20, from 8 to 11 PM Eastern Time.

What this means to you:

Most Modevia services, INCLUDING web hosting and e-mail, will be
unavailable at some point between 8 and 11 on Monday. (DNS and streaming
video *should* continue to function normally.) It is very likely that
the actual outage time will be less than 30 minutes, but this window
allows us time to make sure everything is working correctly before we
bring Ephesus online for public use.

I apologize for any inconvenience that this outage may cause, but I'm
confident that we'll all be much happier once Ephesus is up and running.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me personally
using the information below.

--
Michael Wendt
Operations Director
Modevia Web Services LLC

If anyone has any questions about this, feel free to let me know. Sorry to interrupt your forum!

limester816 · Post by **limester816** » 20 Jun 2005 19:35

do you footbag?

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 20 Jun 2005 19:36

Mike, Thanks so much for hosting this forum! It means a lot to a lot of people and it's really appreciated!

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 20 Jun 2005 20:31

Thanks so much for this Mike, this forum is such a huge part of my life and part of me.

MegaFighter_X · Post by **MegaFighter_X** » 20 Jun 2005 22:17

Awesome! Rotting my brain out on here faster yet! Seriously, the upgrades are appreciated. Hopefully it will be a quick and painless upgrade.

bigdirtyfoot · Post by **bigdirtyfoot** » 21 Jun 2005 04:24

I'd also like to say thanks to you for donating web hosting to footbaggers around the world. We all appreciate it!

delakong · Post by **delakong** » 21 Jun 2005 10:07

Thank you very very very very very (just pretend I typed "very" like, a million times!!!) much Mike. We all really appreciate you hosting our community.

Iain · Post by **Iain** » 21 Jun 2005 18:22

i think mike should be in the footbag hall of fame

modeviamike · Post by **modeviamike** » 21 Jun 2005 18:32

Emil- No, I don't.

But in response to you all.. you're very kind, and you're very welcome. We originally started hosting this community back when Jeremy Watts was still involved, and I'm more than happy to continue doing so. I know how much "free" hosting sucks, so consider Modevia hosting my contribution to your sanity.

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 21 Jun 2005 19:06

cheers man, it's a huge help!

B_Man · Post by **B_Man** » 21 Jun 2005 21:21

Mike, you're the man! No amount of thanks is enough to really imply how much you are doing, not only for us, but for the footbag community as well. With your help, you are bringing us all closer together

majet76 · Post by **majet76** » 24 Jun 2005 19:10

ditto

travismontoya · Post by **travismontoya** » 24 Jun 2005 22:25

B_Man wrote:Mike, you're the man! No amount of thanks is enough to really imply how much you are doing, not only for us, but for the footbag community as well. With your help, you are bringing us all closer together

werd

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 24 Jun 2005 22:31

I think we should each send Mike one nubile virgin girl/boy (he can pick) to truely show how much we appreciate it.

Modified is *the* footbag forum!

travismontoya · Post by **travismontoya** » 24 Jun 2005 23:16

mosher wrote:I think we should each send Mike one nubile virgin girl/boy (he can pick) to truely show how much we appreciate it.

Modified is *the* footbag forum!

LOL! Damn your posts are always funny.