I am going to be rebooting servers tonight to load new kernels which fix meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities.  Then I will be taking mail and web down for about 25 minutes each to image the machines so that if it becomes necessary to restore them in the future, it will not be restored to a vulnerable state.

     I will be taking the web server down for approximately twenty minutes after midnight to image again with missing SSL certificates in place.

     Maintenance on OpenSuse has been completed.  Everything has been restored to service.

     Maintenance has been completed on vps1.  It has been restored to service.

     Maintenance has been completed on the shell server Scientific and on the virtual private server vps4.  Both have been restored to service.

     Maintenance has been completed on Centos7.  It has been returned to service.

     I will be taking vps1 an vps4 down for about twenty minutes each in order to image the machines for possible future restoration.

     The shell servers Centos7, OpenSuse, and Scientific are down to be imaged.  This will take about an hour in total.

     The imaging of the web server has completed successfully and it has been returned to service.

     Our web server is slow currently because it is being hit with a denial of service attack from Amazon cloud server nodes.  So far fail2ban has locked out 454 addresses, the majority being amazon nodes.  As it locks out attacking addresses, the server load is slowly coming down.