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Home » Topics » General Ragchew » ARRL.ORG website will be Down from the 25 – 29th of this month

ARRL.ORG website will be Down from the 25 – 29th of this month

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  • This topic has 2 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 1 year, 5 months ago by Steven Smith.
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  • March 23, 2022 at 11:49 am #2176
    Steven Smith
    Participant

    Yes this includes ARRL LOTW

    The News Flash is prompted because…..

    The ARRL Website will be Off Line for Four Days
    March 25th thru March 29th
    This announcement appears on the ARRL.ORG website now
    this is for a website upgrade.

    This Friday and Saturday is the Belton Hamfest
    in Temple Texas – Myself our ARRL Division Director and staff from
    neighboring ARRL Sections will also be attending.

    Come by and visit us at the ARRL Tables

    73

    ——————————————————————–
    ARRL North Texas Section
    Section Manager: Steven Lott Smith, KG5VK
    kg5vk@arrl.org
    ——————————————————————–

    April 2, 2022 at 8:42 am #2207
    Phillip Beall
    Keymaster

    Steven,

    That seemed like a REALLY long time for a site to be down.  When I was an IT leader for the pilot union at American Airlines the only time we had to go down at all was moving to another server and once when lots of Y2K type changes were implemented.  I hope the ARRL leadership gets a thorough explanation for why it had to be down for so long.  Usually if it is a mammoth change then can port to a parallel server so downtime is limited to no more than 2-3 hours in the middle of the night.  This seems excessive to me.  Maybe they wanted to save money and only have to work on it during bankers hours, but can you imagine a bank or automobile manufacturer having to take their entire site down for four days?  It would never happen…so to me something doesn’t seem right with this.  Ransomware attack?  Russian hack?  Or just a simple upgrade?…  If you ever learn more I’d love to know.  Rick Leonhardt has an extensive background in this type of thing so maybe he can opine.

    Phillip

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by Phillip Beall.
    April 18, 2022 at 8:08 am #2253
    Steven Smith
    Participant

    Philip

    apologies for just now replying

    I should have marked the thread to email any followup post.

    Yes they had it down evenlonger than planned
    and yes more that a half dozen hours is to long

    I am just glad it is indeed back up.

    73
    Steve
    KG5VK

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