As a part of our continuing effort to stay ahead of demand and provide our customers with the best possible experience, we are planning a major upgrade to our hosting infrastructure this weekend. This upgrade will add a handful of new web servers, file 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.
Unfortunately, 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.
Please be advised that our LightCMS, WaterCMS, SkyCMS and Icebrrg software systems will go offline for maintenance on Saturday morning, September 19th, 2009. Our maintenance window will be from 1:00am to 7:00am CDT (GMT -5). We are aiming for a total downtime of less than two hours, but we need to have the six 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.
Thank you for your patience and understanding. We are excited about these improvements which will not only improve things immediately but set us up for a host of performance improvements we have planned for the coming months. We look forward to continuing to serve as your online partner in the years ahead.
Posted on
Fri, September 18, 2009
by Tim Wall
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