PTG server downtime over next two weekends

[Erwinspiano@aol.com]

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Thanks Andy
  You all are doing a great job.  Do they pay you  enough?no.... we could 
take up a collection.   probably deserve  it!
  Dale

PTG  mailing list subscribers,

Sorry if you get multiple copies of this  message.  I'm posting it
to subscribers of pianotech, caut, and  ptg-l.  Any questions about
this post should be addressed to the PTG  Electronic Communications
Committee, ecc@ptg.org.

This weekend, I  will be taking the PTG server down for some extended
maintenance.   During the downtime, mail posted to ptg.org addresses
will be delayed and  the www.ptg.org website will be unavailable.  I
hope to keep the  downtime minimized, but if the need arises, I will
be spreading the  downtime out so that the server stays available during
high usage times  (and so that I can sleep and have a life while the
maintenance work is  going on).

What can you do to help?

PLEASE DON'T  SEND TEST MESSAGES TO
THE LISTS TO SEE IF THEY ARE  UP!

Sorry for yelling, but it just creates noise on the lists.   There's
no need to send posts testing the lists because I'm announcing  now
that there will be some downtime.  If you think the lists are  not
working correctly outside of the times listed below, please  contact
admin@ptg.org and we'll look into it.  No need to post test  messages
that go to many hundreds of people and fill up the  archives.

Although we've had a few server crashes over the years  (that's one of
the issues I'm addressing with the maintenance), I'm very  proud to say
the availability of the PTG server has been quite good.   Hundreds of
messages flow through it daily, along with hundreds of  thousands of
web accesses.  The members of the ECC and the PTG staff  all work hard
to keep this valuable resource available and this maintenance  will
contribute to higher server availability in the future.  We  appreciate
your understanding and apologize for any  inconvenience.

-andy (PTG server administrator and ECC  member)


Scheduled downtimes -- the PTG server MAY be down during  these times:

Saturday 2-18, 9pm Eastern through 7am the  following morning
Sunday   2-19, 11pm Eastern  through 7am the following morning
Monday   2-20,  9pm Eastern through 7am the following morning

Friday   2-24, 9pm Eastern through 7am the following  morning
Saturday 2-25, 11pm Eastern through 7am the following  morning
Sunday   2-26, 9pm Eastern through 7am the  following morning

NOTE: My hope is the total downtime adds up to only a  small number of
hours -- but if unforeseen  problems arise, we'll need to use more
of the  time allotted above to deal with the issues.


 

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