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= Announcing downtime =
 
= Announcing downtime =
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== identi.ca ==
    
Parties interested in receiving these notifications subscribe to
 
Parties interested in receiving these notifications subscribe to
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on [http://identi.ca] crafted like these
 
on [http://identi.ca] crafted like these
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   !sugarlabsstatus bender.sugarlabs.org: maintenance downtime in 10mins
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   !sugarlabsstatus {wiki,www,planet,lists}.sugarlabs.org: maintenance downtime for solarsail in 10mins
   !sugarlabsstatus bender.sugarlabs.org: going down now
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   !sugarlabsstatus {wiki,www,planet,lists}.sugarlabs.org: solarsail going down now
   !sugarlabsstatus bender.sugarlabs.org: back up
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   !sugarlabsstatus {wiki,www,planet,lists}.sugarlabs.org: back up
   !sugarlabsstatus beamrider.sugarlabs.org: machine is unreachable, pls contact co-lo admins
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   !sugarlabsstatus beamrider: machine is unreachable, pls contact co-lo admins
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Please do not abuse this service, as some users configure their identi.ca to
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forward notifications as text messages to their mobile phones and may have to
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pay for each SMS received.
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== hosted@sl.org ==
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The Google Apps group "hosted" forwards outage notifications to several
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individuals and mailing lists who have services hosted at Sugar Labs.
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Use this to notify about ahead-of-time about planned maintenance and
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possible service outages.
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Here's an example of what a notification may look like:
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Subject: develer.com: switch to new uplink, Aug 13 23:00 UTC
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The FSF sysadmins are going to relocate our virtual machine Sunjammer
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today in the evening.
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The new host has faster processors, twice as much memory, a faster RAID1
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array and generally better hardware.  The downtime is projected to last
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15-30 minutes, but it may last longer in case of unexpected issues.
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Apologies for any inconvenience,
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Please do not abuse this service as
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Please format the subject line like in the example, provide detailed
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explanation of what services are affected, along with an estimate of
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time required to complete the work in average and worst-case scenarios.
    
[[Category:Resource]]
 
[[Category:Resource]]