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Server Outage on 2014-12-10 23:00 AEDT

Vandrad Research Labs need to perform a server reboot to activate a number of kernel and kernel module security and stability patches. * WHEN: Currently the server reboot work is scheduled to start on 2014-12-10 23:00 AEDT and for all work to be completed by 2014-12-10 23:30 AEDT * HOW LONG: The outage will require …

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Server outage scheduled for 2014-02-12 23:00 to 2014-02-12 23:30

With the release of Debian Wheezy point release, on 09 FEB 2014, all the servers have been upgraded to run Debian Wheezy 7.4 and as a  consequence we now need to reboot the servers to take advantage of the kernel and kernel module security and stability patches. * WHEN: Currently the server reboot work is …

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Advance Notice : October Server Reboot

Due to a number of kernel bugs patched in recent updates, Vandrad Research Labs will be scheduling server reboots in near future. More information as the schedule firms up

server stack updates

We are planning to upgrade the XEN server stack sometime in the next two weeks. Unfortunately this process will involve some down-time for all of our hosted clients. The upgrade will take the current servers from XEN 3 series hypervisor to a XEN 4  series hypervisor and upgrade the underlying Linux kernel to the current …

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