Update 10:00 pm

A faulty network card was the cause of the mail server problem early Friday morning. Once the card was replaced, the old mail server was put back into operation and will continue running - we hope - until the planned upgrade on Saturday night.

The migration to the new system will take place overnight and we expect to be back to normal by sometime on Sunday. (Yes, we can hear the Internet gods laughing...let's hope it's only laughter they inflict on us.) But we won't know the extent of the service interruption - which may or may not include the web site - until it's all over.

Wish us luck...

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UPDATE: 9:34 a.m.

The switch to the new mail server required a temporary shutdown of several other servers on the network. That delayed our usual overnight home page update and temporarily halted the ad server and the database server. What fun. Apologies again for the disruptions.

The end result should be an overall improvement in performance...but there's likely to be a bit more pain before we get to the gain part.

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NOTICE: 6:00 a.m.

A system upgrade planned for this weekend is now underway due to a failure of the main mail server overnight.

We will resume full service as soon as possible.

Apologies for the disruption.

Cheers,

George

justFRED.ca