Between 10:30 PM and 11:59 PM Pacific time this Saturday night (December 6), all Tiger Technologies servers will be restarted. As a result, customer Web sites and e-mail service will be unavailable for about five minutes at some point during this period.
No e-mail will be lost, of course; incoming mail will just be delayed for a few minutes.
This brief maintenance is necessary to upgrade the operating system “Linux kernel” to a newer version for security reasons. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes.
Update: the maintenance was completed with less than five minutes of downtime.
At approximately 11:00 PM Pacific time this Saturday night (September 20), all Tiger Technologies servers will be restarted. As a result, customer Web sites and e-mail service will be unavailable for three to five minutes.
No e-mail will be lost, of course; incoming mail will just be delayed for a few minutes.
This brief maintenance is necessary to upgrade the operating system “Linux kernel” to a newer version for security reasons. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes.
Update: the maintenance was completed with less than three minutes “downtime” per server.
At approximately 11:00 PM Pacific time this Saturday night (March 1), all Tiger Technologies servers will be restarted. As a result, customer Web sites and e-mail service will be unavailable for three to five minutes.
No e-mail will be lost, of course; incoming mail will just be delayed for a few minutes.
This brief maintenance is necessary to upgrade the operating system “Linux kernel” to a newer version for security reasons. This was also done two weeks ago; unfortunately our operating system vendor has released an even newer kernel since then — it doesn’t usually happen this often.
We apologize for the inconvenience this causes.
(This maintenance was also successfully completed with less than four minutes of downtime per server.)
At approximately 11:00 PM Pacific time this Saturday night (February 16), all Tiger Technologies servers will be restarted. As a result, customer Web sites and e-mail service will be unavailable for three to five minutes.
No e-mail will be lost, of course; incoming mail will just be delayed for a few minutes.
This brief maintenance is necessary to upgrade the operating system “Linux kernel” to a newer version for security reasons. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes.
(This maintenance was successfully completed with less than four minutes of downtime per server.)
A customer pointed out that our servers didn’t have many “locales” installed. A “locale” is a set of rules that apply to a language, region or culture — things like the language’s words for “January” and “Monday”, the way that dates are displayed, and the currency symbol used.
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