Planned Downtime
March 10, 2010
Our server is very kindly housed by the University's Computer Science Department in the Charles Wilson Building.
We have been notified of a planned power outage:
"The University will be switching off the electricity to the Charles Wilson building between 08.00 and 18.00 on Thursday 1st April. [...]
There is another problem, however.
The University is closed for Easter from 18.00 on Wednesday 31st March until 09.00 on Wednesday 7th April. This means that there won't be any staff here to switch the teaching servers back on after the power outage on the 1st April. We will endeavour to restore the teaching service at some time over the Easter weekend but cannot guarantee anything.
faults"
This means that, even if we ensure our server is booted after the downtime, that the gateway that connects the server to the internet will be down, so the site will be unavailable until it is restarted.
Chris Technical Officer