The Purple server will be rebooted Friday between 21:00 and 23:59 UTC on Fri 05th Jan 2018 to load new a new kernel.
This update patched the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities.
The outage should only last around 5 minutes while the systems reboots.
Update: 22:30 - We are about to start this work
Update: 22:39 - This work has now been completed without incident.
Last updated: 13 March 2024 at 17:31 UTC