CAcert System Admins discussion list

[Wytze van der Raay <wytze AT cacert.org>]

Recently CAcert has experienced some hardware problems with its signing
server. The critical systems admin team has recommended to install new
up-to-date hardware, and thanks to a donation from NLUUG (the association of
(professional) Open Systems and Open Standards users in the Netherlands) to
Oophaga, CAcert’s hardware keeper, a new machine has been made available to
CAcert on July 20, 2009.

This opportunity is used by the critical systems administrators to test new
technology and software. Thorough testing is performed on the new system
before migrating all data from the old signing server to the new server inside
the secure data center.

The actual migration will take place on Friday September 11. During the
migration, the signing system will be out of operation for a period of period
of four to eight hours. This means that CAcert signing service will not be
available on Friday September 11 2009 between 14:00 CEST and 22:00 CEST. If
all goes well, the service may be restored before 22:00 CEST, but we cannot
predict that in advance.

Regards,
-- wytze

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