Scheduled Maintenance, Sunday 03/07/2004, 07:30 PM EST (GMT -05:00)

[FH-Dave]

This notification was sent to all of our shared hosting customers yesterday. Forgot to post it on the forums aswell


We will be performing another scheduled maintenance work tomorrow, Sunday, 03/07/2004 at around 7:30 PM EST (GMT -05:00).

We will upgrade the CPU and memory on one of our unix web server, photon.fluidhosting.com to Xeon 2.8 GHz (With HyperThreading) and 2 GB of memory. Only customers hosted on this server will be affected. The downtime is expected to be only 5-10 minutes. No further complications is expected from this work.

You will be effected if your IP is in the range of 66.150.196.130 - 66.150.196.199.

In the next few weeks, we will be performing upgrades to our servers. We will keep you updated with this upcoming upgrades. We hope the upgrade will further improve the performance on all of our servers.

Should you have any further questions and/or concerns relating to this scheduled maintenance work, please do not hesitate to contact us at support@fluidhosting.com.

Sincerely,
Administrators, Fluid Hosting LLC

[FH-Dave]

This maintenance has been resolved. The following email was sent to all shared hosting customers


This is concerning the scheduled maintenance performed today, Sunday 03/07/2004. Photon.fluidhosting.com (one of our UNIX web servers) has been successfully upgraded to Xeon 2.8 GHz (with HyperThreading) and 2 GB of ECC DDR memory. No unexpected problem encountered. Total downtime was around 10 minutes, as expected.

This is a continuation of a series of upgrade performed since last week (on alpha.fluidhosting.com). In the next few days to a week, we will be upgrading:
- graviton.fluidhosting.com (another UNIX web server) to Xeon 2.8 GHz (with HyperThreading) with 3-4 GB of ECC DDR memory.
- mysql1.fluidhosting.com and pgsql1.fluidhosting.com (our database server) to Xeon 2.8 GHz (with HyperThreading), 2 GB of ECC DDR memory, and 15000 rpm SCSI drives in RAID 1.
- win1.fluidhosting.com (one of our Windows web servers) to Xeon 2.8 GHz (with HyperThreading), 2GB of ECC DDR memory.
- MSSQL (mssql1.fluidhosting.com) server will be on its own dedicated server

Should you have any further questions and/or concerns regarding the upgrade done today or the coming upgrades, please do not hesitate to contact us at support@fluidhosting.com.

Sincerely,
Administrators, Fluid Hosting LLC