[matrix-announce] Downtime

[Ciaran Hamilton]

Hi,

Three things. Firstly, sorry for the downtime on matrix earlier. The
downtime was firstly due to me making some changes in preparation for
the yearly->monthly switchover (see one of my previous emails about
this), but that only took 5 minutes. The rest of the downtime was due
to some problems with the kernel, but it took some time to debug. As a
result, matrix is now using a 2.6 kernel instead of a 2.4 kernel, so
bear that in mind if you need to use it. But it's now up again, so
that's great. :D

Secondly, it's potentially possible that you guys may not have got the
last email. You *should* have done, because even though matrix is the
server that handles theblob.org's mail, I have a secondary MX server
set up to go directly to the server that handles this mailing list, so
you should still get emails I sent to the list while matrix is down.
But I want to make certain that you got it - it would have been about
an hour ago. Let me know at ciaran at theblob.org , please. :)

Lastly, it's getting very close to the end of December. Obviously,
given the fact that I'm even sending this email out, I haven't managed
to move everything over yet, mail included. Thus, I'm going to be
switching to monthly payments for it for now; hopefully I can get
everything sorted by the end of January. It involves lowering my disk
space, but that's now been done.

Take care! Again, I'll let you know what happens with the switchover.

 - Ciaran.