[M5Hosting] Emergency Maintenance on Shared Hosting Server "witt.m5hosting.com"

[Michael J McCafferty]

Dear Happy M5 Hosting Customer,

Shared Hosting Customers:
   Early this morning a disk drive in our brand new hosting server died. This
server is the server used to host most of our shared hosting customers. It is
the brand new server we migrated to the week before last.
   Not to worry, the system is configured with redundant hard drives. Both disks
have an exact copy of all data. If one fails, as one did this morning, the
other disk is still operational. No data has been lost. However, if that disk
dies, data will be lost. Right now, with no redundacy of your data is a
condition that makes people like us very nervous. To fix the situation, we need
to take the server down for a few minutes and replace the failed hard drive
with a new one.
   The new drive is in hand, ready to be installed. Once installed the new drive
will automatically copy the data over from the remaining good drive until the
two are identical again. This copy operation will happen while the server is up
and running, and will not significantly affect performance, but will take a few
hours. I'll be you won't notice.
   This maintenance will take place as soon as possible after the business day
has ended, after 5:00pm Pacific Time. Total downtime is expected to be less
than 15 minutes.

Dedicated Server & Colocation Customers:
   This emergency maintenance will not affect you. Please continue to enjoy your
service. :o)


Thank you for your trust and your business !
Mike

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Michael J. McCafferty
Principal, Security Engineer
M5 Hosting
http://www.m5hosting.com
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