Xen.org services migrating to Rackspace Hosting : some downtime expected

Xen.org services migrating to Rackspace Hosting : some downtime expected

[Lars Kurth]

Hi everybody,

Rackspace Hosting has offered the Xen.org community to host xen.org 
services and we have started migration last week. The expectation is 
that all services will be migrated by Nov the 21st. There will be a 
number of services where there may be short downtimes. These will be 
announced in due course.

Xen.org has already been migrated.

We have a new MediaWiki (in testing) and we will be retiring the old 
MoinMoin Wiki. For now, you can check out the new Wiki on 
http://new-wiki.xen.org. Note that only a few pages have been migrated 
so far and I played with the categories.

The expectation is that
- Pages marked as "Keep" in http://tinyurl.com/78fry5y will be migrated 
first
- The old Wiki will become read-only and we also will publish converted 
markup for the old Wiki. Test snapshots of these can be found at 
http://new-wiki.xen.org/old-wiki/ & 
http://new-wiki.xen.org/old-wiki-converted/ - most pages appear to 
translate fairly nicely, except those with images and macros
- Some pages, such as 
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/VirtualPrivateServerProviders may be 
migrated to the static xen.org site (TBD)

We intentionally do not want to wholesale migrate all content as so much 
is out-of-date. The move to the new Wiki
The detailed timing (i.e. exactly when we will switch off the old 
instance off is still to be determined). But it will have to be before 
Nov 21st. Note that you can already sign up as users: we will not 
migrate MoinMoin users.

We will leave the look and feel as a basic Media Wiki for now, but will 
make improvements and install additional plug-ins, etc. in due course.

I will let you know more on the timing on the other services on Wednesday

Regards
Lars