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AngryBox will be going down briefly in eight days, in order to perform kernel and security updates and other upkeep tasks. Expected downtime is on the order of three to five minutes. We will be doing this at an hour so late that some countries don’t even have it (better known as two in the morning, Pacific Daylight Time.) This is standard housecleaning, and happens for an average server twice a year; nothing is wrong. AngryBox is, in fact, chugging along nicely. We’d just like to make sure it’s up to date.

Please make sure that any server software you’re running is set to start on boot automatically. If you are using a standard image, which almost all of you are, then Apache and SSH are already set up to boot; some servers, such as Exim, MySQL and Postfix, automatically set this up, whereas others, such as Qmail, PostgreSQL and Erlang, do not. Almost all services will be enabled/disabled through the unix command “chkconfig.” If you need help getting ready for reboot, let us know, and we’ll toss in a hand.

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There was a four minute outage of network access to AngryBox (most .79.* customers) while a switch at the data center was replaced. We apologize for the inconvenience, though it doesn’t seem that anybody actually noticed. There was no loss of data and nothing is wrong with the machine; just that one of the upstream switches went kaput.