Planned downtime: OS upgrade

[loftar]

Dear y'all,

I'm planning to upgrade the server to the latest version of Debian in about half an hour (2012-06-09 00:00 UTC). It's still running Debian 5.0 which has been deprecated for a couple of months now, so it's about time. I'm planning to shut down the game server at midnight UTC while doing the actual upgrade, but leave the website and forums up during that time. When the upgrade itself is done, I'll reboot the server, during which time the website and forums will obviously be down, but if everything goes as expected, it will all be up again right after the reboot.

[fallout]

inb4

[Valten21]

Good to hear, thanks Loftar

[AAlex]

Great to hear it

[Zeronine]

Many loves, will this actually have any impact whatsoever on haven?

[Bawhoppen]

I wish it was a new world

[Saxony4]

hurray for upgrades.

[Zachary09]

I hope this will fix most crash issues. Can't play recently because of them...

[pawnking2]

How long will the server be down? I was busy hunting before I die of hunger...

[loftar]

Many loves, will this actually have any impact whatsoever on haven?

I'm having some hopes that the newer kernel might have less lock contentions in the XFS driver, which might have a beneficial impact on I/O latency, but I can't say for sure. :)

Other than that, it shouldn't have any practical effects on the game, though.