Database downtime – 20 March 2012

On Tuesday 20th of March 2012 between 13:45 and 16:15 (GMT / UTC) the
primary database server will unavailable due to emergency maintenance.

The following services will be affected:

• www.openstreetmap.org web site will not allow user login or edits (Potlatch). [1]
• API and map database editing (using JOSM, Merkaartor etc.) will be unavailable.
• planet.openstreetmap.org will be available but no new diffs will be generated during the outage.
• Forum (no logins)
• trac (bug-tracker, no logins)
• help.openstreetmap.org (no logins)

Other services will not be affected – all of the following are
expected to function normally:

• tile serving (“View The Map” & “Export”)
• Wiki
• Nominatim (search)
• mailing lists
• subversion and git (source code repositories)
• donate.openstreetmap.org

Technical: Database Server Smaug: Replacing faulty motherboard.
Supplier Engineer Onsite. We have contingency hardware available.

1: Maps will still be viewable on the openstreetmap.org homepage and
on other people’s websites.

Sincerely
Grant Slater
On behalf of the OpenStreetMap sysadmin team

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