Linode Maintainence for all Pylons Projects websites

[Steve Piercy]

Howdy,

The host of all our marketing and documentation websites,
Linode, has informed me that there is a scheduled maintenance
window of 2 hours, although it usually takes no longer than 30 minutes:

2019-10-23 2:00:00 AM UTC

This will affect the following websites:

https://pylonsproject.org
https://trypyramid.com
https://webob.org

...and all documentation under:

https://docs.pylonsproject.org

For example:

https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/

During the service window, documentation may be reached at:

https://<project>.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

For example:

https://pyramid.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

The following is the complete announcement.

--steve

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Hello,

Maintenance is required for one or more of your Linodes'
physical hosts.

Recently, we identified a commit to the upstream Linux kernel[1]
as the cause of an increase in emergency maintenance on our
platform. After implementing and gaining confidence in a fix, we
are now ready to roll this update out to the remainder of our
fleet. We're confident this will resolve the bug and ultimately
lessen the amount of unplanned maintenance for your Linodes as a
result of this specific issue.

Here are a few key points about this maintenance:

- Your maintenance schedule can be found at the bottom of this
ticket, and also within the Linode Manager[2]. If you have a
Linode that is not included in this list, it does not require
any maintenance at this time.
- These maintenance windows cannot be altered, postponed, or
rescheduled, and rebooting your Linode ahead of time will not
remove the need for this maintenance.
- A two-hour window is allocated. However, the actual downtime
is typically less than 30 minutes.
- Your Linode(s) will be cleanly shutdown and will remain
inaccessible during the maintenance window. After the
maintenance has concluded, each Linode will be returned to its
last state (running or powered off).
- These updates affect the underlying infrastructure that your
Linode(s) reside on and will not affect the data stored within
your Linode.
- To ensure your Linode's essential services (MySQL, Apache,
NGINX, etc.) return successfully upon reboot, we strongly
recommend that you review our Reboot Survival Guide[3] prior to
the start of the maintenance period. If you encounter any
connectivity issues after the maintenance is complete, please
refer to this Community Site post[4].

Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks!

-Linode

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/8/905
[2] https://cloud.linode.com/linodes
[3] https://linode.com/docs/uptime/reboot-survival-guide/
[4] https://www.linode.com/community/questions/323/my-linode-is-unreachable-after-maintenance

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Steve Piercy, Eugene, OR