The announcement has been made that the upgrade will commence this Friday evening (erroneously saying 10/14 instead of 11/14).
Tentative upgrade plan:
1. Place CH in maintenance mode.
2. Backup Database
3. Backup all other CH data and pages. This is a complete copy of the forum directories.
4. Request OS upgrade from web server provider.
5. Wait...
6. Wait...
7. Restore the forum directories.
8. Restore database.
9. Test.
10. Place forum back on-line.