[TN-Bird] VERY IMPORTANT TN-BIRD NOTICE TO ALL SUBSCRIBERS

From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "TN-birds" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 02:33:30 -0500
TN-Birders:
The first upgrade of hardware for the Freelist server that distributes the 
TN-Birds mailing list will take place this coming Saturday morning starting at 
around 9 a.m.
Since this is a somewhat complicated process, you may expect that TN-Birds list 
will be out of service for a good part of the day.

We'll be moving to a roomy HP DL585 with 2 Opteron 850's and 2GB RAM.  The 
server also provides for upgradeability -- two more CPU's and 
another 62GB of memory which can be dropped in if ever need.  

It's been just over four years since the last hardware upgrade and Freelist 
feels their need for it has never been greater.

Since Nov. 2001, Freelist has been running on a custom-built server with 512MB 
RAM, two PIII/800 cpu's, and some fairly slow storage.  The fact that they've 
been able to continue running on such ancient hardware is a testament 
to the quality of the Open Source software they so heavily depend on.  
Nonetheless, as Freelist has grown, demand for resources has gradually 
outstripped the capabilities of their hardware.

So here's the plan: Freelist will be doing the migration on Saturday the 22nd, 
starting at about 9am.  It's a complicated migration and they do expect there 
to 
be bumps along the way, but they plan to have everything operational by 
mid-afternoon.  During that time, of course, FreeLists' services and TN-Birds 
net will be unavailable.  The rest of the weekend will be available to finding 
and 
ironing out any remaining problems that crop up.

Any questions or concerns?  Please don't hesitate to ask.  E-mail me at 
wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  There is no need to send messages to TN-Birds 
during downtime because obviously the list will not be operational and no 
messages can be distributed.  We will try to send a message to the list when it 
appears we are again up and running.

Let's go birding.....

Wallace Coffey
Moderator TN-Birds
Tennessee Ornithological Society
Bristol, TN





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