[Foundation-l] Data center move in Amsterdam: expect some downtime

[Chad]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Mark Bergsma <mark at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> In the upcoming days until new years we will be moving our servers and
> other equipment in the Amsterdam data center location to a new data
> center. Unfortunately this might result in some down time and hiccups of
> certain web sites & services, although we will try to keep this to a
> minimum.
>
> On Sunday the 28th, between 09:00 and 11:00 UTC we will migrate our
> network in Amsterdam to new equipment. All services located there will
> be unreachable for a brief period. Traffic for the main wikis will be
> rerouted to the Florida cluster however, and should remain unaffected.
>
> In the days after we will be moving the servers themselves. Some
> services, such as the mailing lists server, the subversion server and
> the toolserver cluster, will be down for a number of hours while the
> equipment is being moved. Traffic for the wikis should again remain
> largely unaffected.
>
> We hope to have the entire migration finished before we enter the last
> few hours of 2008... and start 2009 with a clean sheet. Happy Holidays
> everyone!
>
> --
> Mark Bergsma <mark at wikimedia.org>
> System & Network Administrator, Wikimedia Foundation


Is there a breakdown of which boxes will be unavailable when? Other
than that, thanks for the heads up :)

-Chad