On Jan 19, 2004, at 14:08, Jimmy Wales wrote: Awesome! As a reminder, folks; once the faster machine(s) have been tested to our satisfaction, we'll have to shut the databases down completely for the transfer. I don't know how long the downtime will be, but it will likely be a few hours; hopefully this will be in the middle of the night for most contributors in Europe and America (sorry, Asia!) Read-only cached pages will be available during downtime, but editing won't be possible. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

On Jan 19, 2004, at 22:13, Brion Vibber wrote: Gunther is looking good (though it currently has only 1GB of ram). Geoffrin is still having some troubles, but there's a large chunk of ram that's passed tests; I'm hoping to get the bad bits walled off... -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

On Jan 20, 2004, at 01:54, Brion Vibber wrote: The database is up and running on Geoffrin and all wikis are back online. Hopefully they'll stay that way. ;) Replication (for a live up to the minute backup server) should be set up shortly. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)