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[Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just an FYI guys - Site5 is doing some upgrades.


Site5 Internet Solutions, Inc. maintenance notification [Planned]:

Date:                   10/03/2006 - 10/08/2006
Start time:             22:00 ET / GMT -5
Estimated end time:     06:00 ET / GMT -5

Services/Equipment:     Fleet wide
Type of work:           Software upgrade
Purpose of work:        Upgrade to MySQL 5.0.x
Impact of work:         See below:

During the overnight hours of October 3rd, 2006 through October 8th, 2006 
Site5 will be upgrading MySQL on the servers listed below.  We will be 
removing MySQL 4.1.x from our servers and replacing it with MySQL 5.0.x. 
This upgrade will correct several bugs that remain unfixed in the MySQL 4.1 
tree.  The upgrade to MySQL 5.0.x will also show speed improvements due to 
a new engine as well as increased reliability and stability.

The upgrade to MySQL 5.0.x will take approx. 10 minutes per server. 
Following the successful upgrade to MySQL 5.0.x we will recompile Apache 
and PHP on each server (required due to the change in MySQL libraries). 
Both the MySQL upgrade and the Apache/PHP compile will be customer 
affecting.  Each server will see approx. 15 - 25 minutes of MySQL and 
Apache (web) downtime.  Unfortunately this is a requirement for this 
upgrade--all other services (POP, IMAP, SMTP, FTP, etc.) will remain online.

Please be aware that this upgrade should be seamless for all web 
applications currently installed within your account(s).  However, as a 
precaution, please check with your webmaster and script/web application 
developers to ensure your sites/scripts/web applications are MySQL 5 
compatible.  As I mentioned above, generally, most web applications will 
function just fine using MySQL 5.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact 
customer.service@xxxxxxxxx or open a secure ticket at: 
https://help.site5.com.  Please note that you are receiving this 
maintenance notice because you are a contact for one or more hosting 
accounts directly affected by this maintenance.  If you'd rather not 
receive these emails, please alter your subscription settings within 
Backstage - https://backstage.site5.com.

Thank you for choosing Site5.com.

Regards,

Todd Mitchell
Site5 Internet Solutions, Inc.


October 4th, 2006:
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-------- Original Message --------
From: Site5 Customer Service <devnull@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Scheduled Maintenance Notification
To: mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Site5 Internet Solutions, Inc. maintenance notification [Planned]:

Date:                   09/27/2006 - 10/02/2006
Start time:             22:00 ET / GMT -5
Estimated end time:     06:00 ET / GMT -5

Services/Equipment:     Fleet wide
Type of work:           Software upgrade
Purpose of work:        Upgrade to new mail system
Impact of work:         See below:

During the overnight hours of September 27th, 2006 through October 2nd, 
2006 we will be upgrading various mail systems on the servers listed below. 
We will be removing legacy POP and IMAP daemons and replacing both of them 
with a new Courier install.  This upgrade will increase mail system 
performance and make mail delivery more reliable.

For the duration of this upgrade, access to mail will be disabled.  You 
will not be able to check mail nor will new mail be delivered.  All mail 
sent to the server during this upgrade will be queued and delivered as soon 
as our maintenance is complete.  During the upgrade you may see 
authentication errors (username/password being rejected).  This behavior is 
expected and will correct itself as soon as the maintenance is completed. 
Your old messages on the server will be kept and new mail will start to 
appear shortly after the upgrade.

Following this upgrade you may have to make changes to your mail clients 
(Outlook, Thunderbird, Mail.app, etc.).  If you use IMAP via Thunderbird 
you may need to change your "IMAP Server Directory" to "INBOX"--this is in 
the advanced section of your mail account settings.  The same thing may 
hold true for Outlook and/or Mail.app.  Following this change you should be 
able to resubscribe to your IMAP folders.  If you use POP (95% of our 
clients do), no changes are required.

If you have any custom mail configurations (procmail for instance), please 
disable your filtering prior to your server being upgraded as mail paths 
will change.  If you aren't sure if you're using procmail or another custom 
mail setup, chances are you aren't.  Custom mail configurations require 
moderate to advanced knowledge of our email delivery system and more often 
then not require moderate to advanced knowledge to write specific filtering 
rules.

We anticipate that each server will experience anywhere from 60 minutes - 5 
hours of mail downtime.  This mail server downtime is fully dependent on 
the amount of mail currently stored on the server.  If there's little mail, 
the upgrade process will complete very quickly. Other services (HTTP, FTP, 
MySQL, etc.) on the server will continue to operate as expected.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact 
customer.service@xxxxxxxxx or open a secure ticket at: 
https://help.site5.com.  Please note that you are receiving this 
maintenance notice because you are a contact for one or more hosting 
accounts directly affected by this maintenance.  If you'd rather not 
receive these emails, please alter your subscription settings within 
Backstage - https://backstage.site5.com.

Thank you for choosing Site5.com.

Regards,

Todd Mitchell
Site5 Internet Solutions, Inc.

Note: this email has been sent from an email address that does not exist. 
This was done in order to prevent bounce back messages from clients who 
have outdated contact email addresses on file. Please check our web site at 
http://www.site5.com for our current contact email addresses.



September 27th, 2006:
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laodice
dione
dryads
sirens
traffix
celmis
cilix
orestes
oxide
nyx
photonix
atlas
nocsmasher
interblaster
limitbreaker
moiras
keras
cheiron
eos
neysa
leto
tiresias
menelaus


September 28th, 2006:
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leucothea
pulsar
phoenicians
fates
peony
delbin
stacia
loxias
minta
zenos
alida
hestia
muses
maia
rhea
cayster
nile
coeus
athenia
pontus
arcas
kypris
ichor
glaucus


September 29th, 2006:
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welchanos
nereids
iaso
oannes
sarpedon
voyager
satyrs
nauplius
peitho
semnai
gigantes
thalia
zalmoxis
priapus
briareus
mimas
baucis
zethus
typhon
liknites
otus
philyra
oneiroi
gaea


September 30th, 2006:
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carya
evadne
iacchus
iasius
maro
nike
oracle
ourea
polias
telchines
titans
prometheus
erinyes
demeter
hermes
styx
peleus
helius
achilles
iapetus
asclepius
persephone
hebe
thanatos


October 1st, 2006:
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enyo
icarus
phaeton
tethys
themis
daimon
hypnos
nyx
skylla
erotes
polydora
azure
locus
nova
ion
aphelion
corona
cobalt
amplex
copernic
artemis


October 2nd, 2006:
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melia
metis
ismarus
seafaring
pythia
timeus
hali
eleni
lapetus
oceanus
ophion
notus
adonis

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