[Labs-l] Wikitech.wikimedia.org read-only, possible outage, 2015-02-10 0:00GMT

[Andrew Bogott]

There were several short wikitech outages last week caused by heavy 
machine load on the server that (among other things) hosts the site.  In 
an attempt to distribute load a bit more reasonably I'm migrating that 
web host to new hardware.

The transition should be fairly graceful as the new host is already up 
and running.  There will be a few interruptions in service, though:

- During the move the new wiki will be read-only.  This should only last 
about 10 minutes or so during the DNS switch-over.

- After the move there will almost certainly be a series of mishaps 
involving the labs-controlling aspects of wikitech.  I'll be scrambling 
to fix them and don't expect to spend more than hour or so; I'll follow 
up with another email if the interruption is an longer than that.

- As usual, login sessions will probably be broken necessitating a fresh 
login to wikitech.

This is scheduled for Midnight GMT Tuesday, February 10th.  That's 4PM 
PST on Monday.