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On Mar 19, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Michael Grant wrote:
> My server is live and serving customers.  I can't afford to take the
> box down for a whole day while I upgrade ports.  Is there any
> intelligent way to do this?

Here's what you do:

1) take one server at a time down from the load balancer/worker pool
2) upgrade it
3) put it back in service
4) go to step 1 until all servers are updated.