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Notice: Brief Server Downtime Overnight

([Hardware] 3 Hours Ago Brief Downtime)


Just a friendly heads-up that some brief downtime of Phoronix.com will happen overnight due to replacing a drive in the web server's RAID array.

Starting around 3AM EST / 7:00 GMT on Saturday, Phoronix.com may be offline for about one hour. CloudFlare Always Online should kick in but the Phoronix Forums and similar will be unavailable for commenting.

One of the disks in the Phoronix.com web server's RAID array is being replaced in the data center by our friends at HiVelocity based on the SMART information of reaching end of life. So while syncing data to the new disk, some brief downtime is to be expected.

Thanks and will hopefully be back up and ready early Saturday morning for the continued daily flow of open-source news and Linux benchmarking on Phoronix.


Overall, the philosophy is to attack the availability problem from two
complementary directions: to reduce the number of software errors through
rigorous testing of running systems, and to reduce the effect of the remaining
errors by providing for recovery from them. An interesting footnote to this
design is that now a system failure can usually be considered to be the
result of two program errors: the first, in the program that started the
problem; the second, in the recovery routine that could not protect the
system.
-- A. L. Scherr, "Functional Structure of IBM Virtual Storage
Operating Systems, Part II: OS/VS-2 Concepts and
Philosophies," IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4.