Network maintenance Saturday March 24 (completed)

We’ve been notified by an upstream network provider that they will be performing router firmware upgrades on Saturday, March 24 2012 between 4:00 and 4:30 PM Pacific time.

Most customers will not notice any service interruption because we use redundant network providers, but in the worst case it can take up to about 90 seconds for certain parts of the Internet to see the changed “routes”. That means a brief interruption is theoretically possible for some connections. We’re announcing this just so you know that if you do see any problem, it will be resolved quickly.

Update 4:33 PM Pacific time: The maintenance has been completed.

Brief scheduled maintenance for MySQL update March 9, 2012 (completed)

Between 10:00 PM and 11:00 PM Pacific time on Friday March 9, 2012, we’ll be updating the MySQL database software on all our hosting servers. This will cause a Web site service interruption of about 30 seconds for some customers at some time during this period. E-mail will not be affected.

This maintenance is necessary to install a mandatory MySQL security update that will upgrade the MySQL version to 5.1.61. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.

Update 10:13 PM: The maintenance was completed with less than 30 seconds downtime on each server. Customers should not notice any changes, but as always, don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions or problems.