Brief MySQL scheduled maintenance Feb 24, 2017 (completed)

Between 9:00 PM and 11:59 PM Pacific time on Friday, February 24, 2017, the MySQL database software on each of our servers will be restarted. This will cause an approximately 60 second interruption of service on each MySQL-using customer Web site at some point during this period.

This is necessary for security and stability reasons. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes.

Update 9:49 PM Pacific time: The maintenance was completed as planned and all services are running normally.

PHP 7.0.16 and 7.1.2

The PHP developers recently released versions 7.0.16 and 7.1.2 that fix several bugs. We’ve upgraded the PHP 7.0 and 7.1 series on our servers as a result.

These changes should not be noticeable, but as always, don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any trouble.

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President’s Day 2017 holiday hours

Our business offices will be closed on Monday, February 20 to observe the US legal holiday. As always, we’ll provide same-day support for time-sensitive issues via our ticket and e-mail systems. However, questions that aren’t time-sensitive (including most billing matters) may not be answered until the next day, and telephone support (via callbacks) will be available only for urgent problems.

Brief MySQL scheduled maintenance Feb 3, 2017 (completed)

Between 9:00 PM and 11:59 PM Pacific time on Friday, February 3, 2017, the MySQL database software on each of our servers will be upgraded from version 5.5.53 to 5.5.54. This will cause an approximately 60 second interruption of service on each MySQL-using customer Web site at some point during this period.

This upgrade is necessary for security reasons. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes.

Update 9:44 PM Pacific time: The maintenance was completed as planned and all services are running normally.