Yep I've done it again, using my expert language skills, witnessed by Chris, Omar and Paul (who were in sheer awe of my creative ability), I've come up with yet another jaw-droppingly inspiring, entirely focused and understable term!

We wanted to stop all SMS and SQL services on a server so we can take her down and perform some hardware maintenance ... switching her off, stopping and disabling services, these are not elegant ways to describe what is happening, so, without much further ado, here is the latest term coined by Marshall industries:

Parked

Yes, it is that simple! I'm going to "Park" a site server, now doesn't that sound far more rizty than saying you're going to stop and disable all SMS related services eh

"This server is parked" meaning it's been prepared for an outage and not providing a production service.

Feel free to spread this term like the plague :-)

And for a few of you, this series of blog postings on new terms is tongue in cheek, humour? i don't expect you to bow down and revere me but you can if you want