Emergency Upgrade- Mastodon Server

[Rafael]

We will be adding a new hard drive to the Mastodon server tonight sometime after 11 p.m. EST. There will be some downtime involved as the new hard drive is added, and we move some files over to it. We have been dealing with some serious high load issues over the past weeks, and we have determined a new hard drive is needed to alleviate the problem. We will work to keep the downtime to a minimum and get things back to normal as quickly as possible.

[Rafael]

The new hard drive was successfully added to Mastodon last night. Much of the night was then spent transferring files to the new drive. The file transfer is not yet complete, but we stopped it for the sake of maintaining an acceptable server load during peak business hours. The rsync process will continue tonight after 11 p.m. EST.