Tentative Maintenance Work Friday 12/9 11pm-2am

     Depending upon weather and other factors, I am planning to upgrade the kernel 6.0.11, however this depends upon the roads being clear of snow.  And then after the kernel upgrade, I am planning to go to the co-location facility and will be making some adjustments to the server that is serving the majority of virtual private servers.  It is currently slightly unstable so I am going to adjust the clock down from 4.3 Ghz to 4.2 Ghz to provide improved stability.  This will probably happen around 1AM.

     The kernel upgrades will affect all services, and should be completed by around 11:30PM.  The server clock adjustment will affect only virtual private servers and should be relatively brief at around 1AM.  This will just be changing a multiplier from 43 to 42, so just need to take it down, adjust, and reboot.

     The services affected by the kernel upgrade will include all of Eskimo’s paid services including shell accounts, e-mail, web hosting, etc, and free federated services including https://friendica.eskimo.com/, https://hubzilla.eskiimo.com/, and https://nextcloud.eskimo.com/ and https://yacy.eskimo.com/.