tigertech-announce Mailing List: MySQL maintenance at 10:00 PM Pacific tonight

[Tiger Technologies (support]

Dear Tiger Technologies Web hosting customer,

This is a followup to our previous message about problems with the 
"mysql2.tigertech.net" server. That server experienced an additional 
problem which required it to be restarted again, resulting in several 
more minutes of unscheduled downtime for some customers.

To prevent any additional outages, we have scheduled maintenance for 
10:00 PM (Pacific time) tonight. During that time, the MySQL data from 
that MySQL server will be moved to different servers (the databases will 
actually be spread across three MySQL servers). We have tested this 
process and expect it to take approximately ten minutes; during that 
period, you may be unable to connect to your MySQL database.

Moving the databases will be done in a manner that is transparent to any 
scripts that you use on our servers: you will not need to update the 
server "hostname" or make any other changes to scripts that use MySQL.

(A small number of customers also connect to our MySQL servers using 
special software on their own computers. These customers will need to 
change the server hostname they use to make remote connections, but 
we'll send a separate message about that to the small number of people 
who are affected.)

Again, we apologize for the inconvenience this will cause, and for the 
short notice. Please let us know if you have any questions. We 
appreciate your business!

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Tiger Technologies