Maintenance: Wordsworth

Planned maintenance for the WordPress MAX server “Wordsworth”
Maintenance window:
Friday 2 December 2011 10PM-12PM SAST (8PM-10PM GMT)
Anticipated Impact:
there is a small chance that websites hosted on this server might become unavailable for a few seconds at a time during the maintenance window, although zero downtime is expected
Description of work:
installation of HIVE to improve fastcgi performance and server security

High Load: Glee

We’re seeing high loads on the server “Glee”, which is causing intermittent timeouts and 500 server errors, and are working to find and fix the cause.

Update 15:10 We’ve found and fixed the problems (the biggest was a massive spam attack which overloaded exim/mailscanner). Apologies for the inconvenience.