Web Design in Oklahoma City

If you read our blog last week, this post will sound familiar. That's because we scheduled some major server upgrades last weekend (read our post about them here) but, due to unforeseen complications, we had to revert back to our prior configuration (read details about the reversion here). At that time, we indicated we would look to reschedule these planned upgrades sometime in mid-October.

Well, our development team just couldn't let things go that long. They've been working overtime this week exploring and testing and they are confident and ready to reschedule the upgrades for this coming weekend. Just to review, here's a little bit about what we're planning.

This upgrade will add a handful of new web servers, file servers, database servers and caching servers to our already robust hosting environment. In addition, we will be enhancing our load balancing technology with the latest and most advanced equipment available. These changes are designed to increase our server redundancies and provide plenty of headroom for growth as we look to the future.

Of course, just like last time, massive improvements such as these require us to take our systems offline for a period of time while changes are made. We apologize for this inconvenience and we are scheduling our upgrades at the period of lowest possible system usage in order to minimize the impact of the upgrades. The good news is that our team is able to reduce our maintenance window by two hours this time.

Please be advised that our LightCMS, WaterCMS, SkyCMS and Icebrrg software systems will go offline for upgrades on Saturday morning, September 26th, 2009. Our upgrade window will be from 1:00am to 5:00am CDT (GMT -5). We are aiming for a total downtime of less than two hours, but we need to have the four hour window in place to plan for all contingencies. Throughout the upgrade period, we will be providing updates on our status page at status.elementfusion.com. Our status page is hosted on a completely separate system, so it will remain online throughout the upgrade process.

Thank you again for your continued support through this process. We are still very excited about these improvements and we look forward to having the systems up and running in their new configuration. These upgrades will not only provide immediate performance improvements but also set us up for continued growth and expansion for years to come.