Brief MySQL scheduled maintenance October 24 2014 (completed)

Between 9:00 PM and 11:59 PM Pacific time on Friday October 24 2014, the MySQL database software on each of our servers will be upgraded from version 5.5.38 to 5.5.40. 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 9:23 PM Pacific time: The maintenance was completed and all services are running normally.

Brief MySQL scheduled maintenance August 9 2014 (completed)

Between 9:00 PM and 11:59 PM Pacific time on Saturday August 9 2014, the MySQL database software on each of our servers will be upgraded from version 5.5.35 to 5.5.38. This will cause an approximately 30 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 9:43 PM Pacific time: The maintenance was completed and all services are running normally.

Brief scheduled maintenance June 7, 2014 (completed)

Between 10:00 PM and 11:59 PM Pacific time on Saturday, June 7, each of our hosting servers will be restarted. This will cause a brief interruption of service (less than 10 minutes) for each site at some point during this 2 hour period.

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Brief scheduled maintenance May 24, 2014 (completed)

Between 10:00 PM and 11:59 PM Pacific time on Saturday, May 24, each of our hosting servers will be restarted. This will cause a brief interruption of service (less than 10 minutes) for each site at some point during this 2 hour period.

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Brief scheduled maintenance on web07 server April 5, 2014 (completed)

At approximately 10:00 PM Pacific time Saturday April 5, 2014, the “web07” server will be restarted. This will cause a short interruption of service for Web sites on that server lasting less than 8 minutes.

Other servers will not be affected. Mail for customers on this server will be queued and delivered after a short delay.

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Brief scheduled maintenance on web05, web07 & web08 servers March 1, 2014 (completed)

Update: The maintenance described below was completed with less than 10 minutes downtime per server.

Between 10:00 PM and 11:59 PM Pacific time on Saturday March 1 2014, the “web05“, “web07” and “web08” servers will be restarted. This will cause a short interruption of service on each of these three servers, lasting less than 10 minutes, at some point during this two hour period.

Other servers will not be affected. Incoming mail for customers on these servers will not be lost, but will be queued and delivered after the maintenance.

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Upcoming scheduled maintenance for MySQL 5.5 upgrades (completed)

Over the next ten days (February 7-15, 2014), we’ll be upgrading the MySQL database on all of our servers from version 5.1.72 to 5.5.35. The upgrade requires that each Web server be taken offline for two minutes, causing brief scheduled “downtime”.

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Updates: MySQL 5.1.72, PHP 5.4.21, PHP 5.5.5 (completed)

We’ve updated MySQL from version 5.1.66 to version 5.1.72. This upgrade was necessary for security reasons.

We’ve also updated the PHP 5.4 series from 5.4.20 to 5.4.21, and the PHP 5.5 series from 5.5.4 to 5.5.5, to fix several bugs.

These updates should be invisible to customers, but as always, don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

Brief scheduled maintenance on web06 server September 28, 2013 (completed)

At approximately 11:00 PM Saturday September 28, 2013, the “web06” server will be restarted. This will cause a short interruption of service for Web sites on that server lasting about 8 minutes.

Other servers will not be affected. Mail for customers on this server will be queued and delivered after a short delay.

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Brief scheduled maintenance on web06 server August 24, 2013 (completed)

At approximately 11:00 PM Saturday August 23, 2013, the “web06” server will be restarted. This will cause a short interruption of service for Web sites that server lasting about 8 minutes.

Other servers will not be affected. Mail for customers on this server will be queued and delivered after a short delay.

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