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The Distributed Proofreaders site is scheduled to be completely unavailable starting at 9am server time on 15 March 2025 as we update our Operating System. We hope to have completed the update by end of day. During this time the main site, forum, and wiki will be unavailable.

Please consider using this maintenance window to do Smooth Reads that you have taken out prior to the downtime.

Please save all of your work before we start the maintenance at 9am server time. Proofreading pages offline while the server is down and saving them when it comes back up will not work.

If the upgrade and related checks are completed early, the site will return sooner.

Thank you for your patience. As you wait for Distributed Proofreaders to become available again, please feel free to browse through the excellent articles in this Blog.

We’ll keep this blog post updated with progress during the outage. You can also find us on Facebook.

Update 9am EDT: Maintenance has started.

Update 11am EDT: Maintenance continuing as planned.

Update 1pm EDT: Maintenance continuing as planned.

Update 3pm EDT: Maintenance continuing as planned.Update

Update 3:35pm EDT: Site is back up and operational. Thank you for your patience!

Our site is now back online! Thanks to our admin and technical volunteers for helping us deal with this hardware problem

I am sorry to announce that Distributed Proofreaders is experiencing hardware issues and the site will be unavailable while we fully investigate and repair the problem. It is very important that we correct the problem in order to avoid data corruption. 

I will keep you updated as we investigate further. 

Thank you for your patience. 

Linda Hamilton,

General Manager, Distributed Proofreaders 

Updates:

10 Oct. 2024 3:40pm Server Time: The site is now back online. Thank you for your patience.

10 Oct. 2024 2:30pm Server Time: The checking continues, however the forums and wiki are now online and available.

10 Oct. 2024 1:30pm Server Time: We are currently carefully checking the site before hopefully making it live.

9 Oct. 2024 8:37pm Server Time: We have installed the new hardware and are copying over and verifying the data.

8 Oct. 2024 10:45pm Server Time: We have purchased required hardware and plan to install it tomorrow.

7 Oct. 2024 11:55pm Server Time: Our technical team has investigated the hardware issue and we have created a plan that we believe will deal with it.

7 Oct. 2024 4:14pm Server Time: Our technical team continue to work on the problem

The Distributed Proofreaders site is scheduled to be completely unavailable starting at 12 noon server time on Tuesday 19 May 2020 as we roll out Unicode support. The data conversion will take a while and we are estimating about 24 hours of downtime. During this time the main site will be down but the forums and the wiki will be available. If the data conversion and related checks are completed early, the site will return sooner.

Please consider using this maintenance window to do Smooth Reads that you have taken out prior to the downtime.

The code update requires logging out all volunteers. This means that you must save all of your work before we start the maintenance. Proofreading pages offline while the server is down and saving them when it comes back up will not work.

Thank you for your patience. As you wait for Distributed Proofreaders to become available again, please feel free to browse through the excellent articles in this Blog.

We’ll keep this blog post updated with progress during the outage. You can also find us on Facebook.

Note: Once the rollout has completed, there will be a brief forum and wiki outage as we restart the server.

Update 4:40pm EDT: Site is back up and operational. Thank you for your patience!

Update 3:00pm EDT: We are making good progress and hope to conclude soon. Once we complete our work, there will be a brief full-server outage (including the forums and wiki) as we restart the system.

Update 12:00pm EDT: Maintenance has started.

The Distributed Proofreaders site is scheduled to be completely unavailable starting at 1pm server time on Tuesday 21 January 2020 as we do some database maintenance and install some disruptive code updates. It’s possible that these database changes could take a significant amount of time, possibly even a few days. During this time the main site will be down but the forums and the wiki will be remain available.

Please consider using this maintenance window to do Smooth Reads that you have taken out prior to the downtime or to help us test the new Unicode DP code on the test server. For more information about the testing, please visit our Distributed Proofreaders forums.

The code update requires logging out all volunteers. This means that you must save all of your work before we start the maintenance at 1pm server time. Proofreading pages offline while the server is down and saving them when it comes back up will not work.

We hope that the update will not take several days. If the upgrade and data conversion and related checks are completed early, the site will return sooner.

Thank you for your patience. As you wait for Distributed Proofreaders to become available again, please feel free to browse through the excellent articles in this Blog.

We’ll keep this blog post updated with progress during the outage. You can also find us on Facebook.

Update 10:30am EST: Site is back up and operational. Thank you for your patience!

Update 9:45am EST: Making good progress.

Update 12:00am EST: Proceeding as planned.

Update 10:00pm EST: Proceeding as planned.

Update 7:20pm EST: Proceeding as planned.

Update 4:20pm EST: Proceeding as planned.

Update 2:00pm EST: We’re making very good time so far and hope to be live sometime today.

Update 1:00pm EST: Maintenance has started.

The Distributed Proofreaders site is scheduled to be completely unavailable between 3 pm and 8 pm server time on Sunday 22 April 2018 as we upgrade to a new Operating System.

The update is not expected to take a full 5 hours. If checks are completed early, the site will return sooner.

Thank you for your patience. As you wait for Distributed Proofreaders to become available again, please feel free to browse through the excellent articles in this Blog.

We’ll keep this blog post updated with progress during the outage. You can also find us in the pgdp Jabber conference room (pgdp@conference.jabber.org)

Update 6:10pm: Site is back up and operational, thank you for your patience!

Update 5:00 pm: Still proceeding as planned.

Update 4:00 pm: Proceeding as planned.

Update 3:00pm: Maintenance has started.

The Distributed Proofreaders site is scheduled to be completely unavailable between 7 pm and 1 am server time starting on Wednesday 21 June 2017 as we upgrade to our forum and wiki software.

The update is not expected to take a full 6 hours. If checks are completed early, the site will return sooner.

Thank you for your patience. As you wait for Distributed Proofreaders to become available again, please feel free to browse through the excellent articles in this Blog.

We’ll keep this blog post updated with progress during the outage. You can also find us in the pgdp Jabber conference room (pgdp@conference.jabber.org) and on Facebook.

7:05 pm – Work has started and the site is in Maintenance Mode.
8:00 pm – Forum database migration (first phase) continues as expected.
9:00 pm – The second phase of the forum database migration is in progress.
10:00 pm – Update still in progress.
11:00 pm – Still continuing.
12:30 pm – Site is back up and operational; thank you for your patience!

The Distributed Proofreaders site is scheduled to be completely unavailable between 10 am and 10 pm server time on Sunday 5 March 2017 as we upgrade to a new Operating System and move to a different server and hosting service.

The update is not expected to take a full 12 hours. If checks are completed early, the site will return sooner.

Thank you for your patience. As you wait for Distributed Proofreaders to become available again, please feel free to browse through the excellent articles in this Blog.

We’ll keep this blog post updated with progress during the outage. You can also find us in the pgdp Jabber conference room (pgdp@conference.jabber.org)

Update 6:35pm: Site is back up and operational, thank you for your patience!

Update 3:51 pm: Still proceeding as planned.

Update 11:58 am: Proceeding as planned.

Update 10:09 am: Maintenance has started.

www.pgdp.net will be down for scheduled maintenance to upgrade the forum software starting Saturday September 12th at 2pm US Eastern. The site should be up again by 8pm US Eastern. During this time the site will be completely unavailable. Please note that although the scheduled outage period is six hours, the expectation is closer to four hours.

We’ll keep this blog post updated with progress during the outage. You can also find us in the pgdp Jabber conference room (pgdp@conference.jabber.org).

Update 2:03pm: Maintenance has started.

Update 3:00pm: Forum conversion progressing as expected. The system is working through 830k forum posts at the moment.

Update 4:00pm: 80% done with the forum posts then the system starts on the 300k private messages — we’re a chatty bunch!

Update 5:00pm: The forum posts are behind us and we’re half way through the private messages.

Update 5:59pm: Database conversion is finished and we’re now busy doing final forum configuration changes and tweaks.

Update 7:02pm: We’re almost done and are putting the finishing touches on it now. We expect to have it completed and the site up well within the next hour.

Update 7:46pm: Site is back up and operational, thank you for your patience!

Our OS Upgrade/Server Migration is now complete.

Because we have moved to new hardware and a newer version of the operating system, there may be some minor issues left to resolve. If you encounter anything unusual, please let us know in this thread.

If you’re having trouble reaching the site, please try clearing your cache, removing cookies for pgdp.net, and/or restarting your browser.

Thanks to all the squirrels for their assistance in making this major transition happen, and thanks again to our volunteers for waiting patiently while we accomplished this task.

(background music: One Week)

Please check on the DP forums over the next few days for a post with additional details and information once I’ve returned from being on-site.

David (donovan)