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Maintenance has been finished with regard to the last post. The software has been updated and minimal downtime was incurred.

Marston Innovation maintenance notification [Planned]:

Date: 12/19/2005 – 12/23/2005
Start time: 03:00 GMT
Estimated end time: 13:00 GMT



Services/Equipment: All servers
Type of work: Software upgrades
Purpose of work: Apache recompile, PHP upgrade & MySQL upgrade


Impact of work: See below:

In order to maintain the best possible hosting environment, we will be performing scheduled maintenance during the week of Dec. 19th, 2005.

During the aforementioned maintenance window, we will be recompiling Apache (keeping the same version), upgrading PHP to 4.4.1 & upgrading MySQL to 4.1.15.

Please be aware that the upgrade to MySQL 4.1.15 from 4.0.26 is a major update. Some syntax changes have been made & the password hashing in MySQL 4.1.x is different from the previous MySQL 4.0.x versions. We will be able to maintain the old hashing system for the time being. However, you should check to ensure that all of your scripts/web applications are MySQL 4.1 compatible.

There will be no downtime for the Apache/PHP upgrades. The MySQL upgrade will result in a loss of MySQL database connectivity for less than 5 minutes while the new MySQL system is installed.

The advantage of upgrading MySQL is a few fold. The 4.1 tree of MySQL resolves a few lingering bugs that affect a few of our servers; mainly related to connections that do not terminate. The 4.1 tree also brings support for additional languages/characters & sub-queries. The overall impact is a more reliable & resilient database server.

Please note that during this procedure, no data will be lost.

Should you have any questions or concerns related to the abovementioned maintenance, please feel free to get in contact: http://www.marstoninnovation.com/contact/

Regards,

Marston

support@marstoninnovation.com

There will be a scheduled maintanence of our server at approx. 6am EST. There will be an additional 2GB of ram upgraded for a total of 4GB of RAM. Estimated downtime is 10min.


If there are any questions or concerns please let use know: support@marstoninnovation.com