Post by chris on Jan 10, 2014 11:17:42 GMT
Thought I'd give you all an early heads up that we're planning some scheduled maintenance next week, currently targeting Tuesday morning 9:30 to 10:30. We're making some changes to our hosting environment which includes migrating to new database servers, making some connectivity changes, increasing our monitoring coverage with additional checks, and changing the way we configure, manage and cluster our web servers to allow for much quicker and easier dynamic scaling down the road.
Much of this is overkill for now but is aimed at streamlining our technical operations and future proofing the site. We have a couple features planned for the next few months that will be resource intensive, thus it's best to make the architectural changes now in preparation, and as with all platforms in this space we have ambitious growth targets.
We're targeting Tuesday but if our testing over the next few days finds any obscure issues then we may push this back by a day or two. I'll keep you posted.
Much of this is overkill for now but is aimed at streamlining our technical operations and future proofing the site. We have a couple features planned for the next few months that will be resource intensive, thus it's best to make the architectural changes now in preparation, and as with all platforms in this space we have ambitious growth targets.
We're targeting Tuesday but if our testing over the next few days finds any obscure issues then we may push this back by a day or two. I'll keep you posted.