Scheduled Maintenance: March 7th, 2010

To pave the road for the upcoming Subscribe-O-Matic upgrades, we’re moving the service to a shiny new server (and a different datacenter). I’m not expecting any downtime (hence the short notice), but there might be a few short disruptions in form of not being able to send messages or new members not being able to subscribe, since we’ll be locking the database for write access while we migrate everything.

You might also experience some slight slowdowns during the day until the DNS changes propagate over the internet properly. Here’s a quick breakdown of the move:

• March 7th 01:00AM – 02:00AM PST – database move: you won’t be able to send messages during this time and members won’t be able to subscribe/unsubscribe.
• March 7th 03:00 AM PST – service and website DNS change:  DNS will be updated to point to the new servers. I don’t anticipate any disruptions, but you might experience a slight slowdown until your objects in-world are actually connecting to the new server. In extreme cases, the DNS changes might take between 24-48 hours to propagate across the internet.
• March 8th – blog and support portal move: no disruptions planned.

I’ll update this post as soon as the move is complete.

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