A pre-warning of upcoming server status

[oldandlively]

It's best to keep everyone in the loop of any pending downtime or possible hiccup. Our loving IBM host is letting us know that on March 14, 2025, they're replacing hardwares.

Replace Hardware Module
Source ID: 165981326
State: Planned
Type: Maintenance
Severity: Medium Impact
Start Time: 14 Mar 2025, 2:30 AM UTC
End Time: 14 Mar 2025, 12:30 PM UTC
Update Time: 21 Feb 2025, 12:55 AM UTC
Description:
What are we changing?
Network Engineers will be performing maintenance to replace a faulty module in the redundant pair of Backend Customer Routers (BCR). The BCRs provide private connectivity for your server(s). Public connectivity will not be affected by this maintenance.

In my defense, I don't trust IBM as much as I can spell that acronym. We got plenty of these "low" and "medium" impact notifications and we ended up with "major" and "catastrophe" results. So, between March 14th to March 21st, if we get disconnected in some way, blame IBM. We'll do our diligence on backing up data religiously during this period as a precaution.

 

[DLD]

It's best to keep everyone in the loop of any pending downtime or possible hiccup. Our loving IBM host is letting us know that on March 14, 2025, they're replacing hardwares.

Replace Hardware Module
Source ID: 165981326
State: Planned
Type: Maintenance
Severity: Medium Impact
Start Time: 14 Mar 2025, 2:30 AM UTC
End Time: 14 Mar 2025, 12:30 PM UTC
Update Time: 21 Feb 2025, 12:55 AM UTC
Description:
What are we changing?
Network Engineers will be performing maintenance to replace a faulty module in the redundant pair of Backend Customer Routers (BCR). The BCRs provide private connectivity for your server(s). Public connectivity will not be affected by this maintenance.

In my defense, I don't trust IBM as much as I can spell that acronym. We got plenty of these "low" and "medium" impact notifications and we ended up with "major" and "catastrophe" results. So, between March 14th to March 21st, if we get disconnected in some way, blame IBM. We'll do our diligence on backing up data religiously during this period as a precaution.

Excellent news. So you are saying we will still be able to post during this?

 

[oldandlively]

Excellent news. So you are saying we will still be able to post during this?

Yes. The service "should not" be interrupted. It's better not. Otherwise, IBM will have over 1,000 clients breathing down its neck. However, the "should not" must not be taken seriously. Always be ready for crap to happen.

 

[DLD]

Yes. The service "should not" be interrupted. It's better not. Otherwise, IBM will have over 1,000 clients breathing down its neck. However, the "should not" must not be taken seriously. Always be ready for crap to happen.

Ok

 

[oldandlively]

Damn freaking IBM!!! YOU ARE KILLING OUR SANITY!! They ignored us completely.

IBM cause so many servers to go down. I sent multiple love notes to them and they were dealing with so many other higher-paying clients than to deal with us poorman's server. I managed to dig my ways out of their mistakes and got us back online.

Sorry for all the issues lately brothers. We'll be moving our server to a different Cloud Platform instead of paying any more to IBM. We'll let you know later about our migration.

 

[DLD]

Excellent work!

 

[SLO]

Good to know- I’m going to a bucket list concert on 3/14

 

[oldandlively]

Just a warning. IBM is notifying us of impending server hardware replacement on April 16. This means that between April 15 to April 17, we may experience some strange traffic slow down, the forum going down, or worst, data loss. I'm continuing to put the backup on a daily basis just in case, but will increase the back up to twice a day on these 3 days.

 

[DLD]

Thanks for the update

 

[oldandlively]

Funny how a few sites use IBM servers that I use went down for a few hours. Funny how all of them went off at the same time.

 

[DLD]

Funny how a few sites use IBM servers that I use went down for a few hours. Funny how all of them went off at the same time.

I didn't notice it, I was likely sleeping

 

[oldandlively]

Just a few warnings everyone. In the next week or two, our virtual server host is undergoing some series of light upgrades to their infrastructures. Quite a few software and hardware removal and replacement. If you see slowdown or glitches, please be patient.

We also are experiencing massive visits from all over the world. In the past few weeks, our server is getting hammered by thousands of visitors per hour for a good 8 hours straight. If this kind of visits keep up, we'll expand the bandwidth just a bit more to accommodate the traffics.

 

[oldandlively]

Additional news from our IBM servers. The services are being defunct while they hijack the costs. What does that mean?

• The database we're using may need to be "transferred" to a different database format.
• We will have to provide our own licenses to use our existing database format, which we already intercepted earlier this year. Thank you IBM for warning us early yesterday (being cynical here).
• Less IBM staff and more IBM AI assistants. Oh boy, it's going to be fun doing the loop for customer service help.
• New and old hardware have been causing intermittent connections. Go figure, with a skeleton crew to run the hardware.

 

[DLD]

What will this mean to the brotherhood?

 

[oldandlively]

What will this mean to the brotherhood?

Crappy speed at time. Sometimes, you can't even access the site like today, around 5 hours ago. There was a sudden disconnection for a good 5 minutes. Worst, if we need technical help because their system failed and caused our server to crash, we'll be going over Niagara Falls without a barrel.

 

[DLD]

Why not switch to a better server?

 

[oldandlively]

Why not switch to a better server?

Yepper. Been trying to get the new Google Cloud server going. Our boss lady is in charge of setting up that account.

 

[DLD]

Yepper. Been trying to get the new Google Cloud server going. Our boss lady is in charge of setting up that account.

Have you contacted her?

 

[oldandlively]

Have you contacted her?

Yep. She just needs to tie up some loose ends on her side.

 

[DLD]

Yep. She just needs to tie up some loose ends on her side.

Awesome