Guild Launch News
Extended Downtime - New Database Hardware 10/22
Greetings Everyone,
Our new database hardware came in earlier in the week and we are a bit ahead of schedule on configuration. Given the timing, we are going to go ahead and tentatively schedule an extended downtime for tomorrow morning 10/22/2008. Our windows for this downtime are the 22nd and the 29th. If we run into any showstoppers and can't perform the upgrade tomorrow morning, then we'll definitely perform the upgrade on the 29th.
We will begin the installation process at 6am EST tomorrow morning and we plan to have all of the sites back up by 9am EST tomorrow. We've tested this process in our development environments, but the imports could take a bit longer than planned. We will bring the sites up as soon as everything is functional and stable.
This new hardware is a considerable upgrade and will give us much more power and growth ability on our primary database.
Enjoy!
Stephen
UPDATE: 10/21 9:30PM EST
We completed our dry run of the upgrade this afternoon. We're ready to go in the morning.
UPDATE: 10/22 8:30AM EST
The database upgrade is complete. We are performing some final testing and readying the site to be set back live.
Our new database hardware came in earlier in the week and we are a bit ahead of schedule on configuration. Given the timing, we are going to go ahead and tentatively schedule an extended downtime for tomorrow morning 10/22/2008. Our windows for this downtime are the 22nd and the 29th. If we run into any showstoppers and can't perform the upgrade tomorrow morning, then we'll definitely perform the upgrade on the 29th.
We will begin the installation process at 6am EST tomorrow morning and we plan to have all of the sites back up by 9am EST tomorrow. We've tested this process in our development environments, but the imports could take a bit longer than planned. We will bring the sites up as soon as everything is functional and stable.
This new hardware is a considerable upgrade and will give us much more power and growth ability on our primary database.
Enjoy!
Stephen
UPDATE: 10/21 9:30PM EST
We completed our dry run of the upgrade this afternoon. We're ready to go in the morning.
UPDATE: 10/22 8:30AM EST
The database upgrade is complete. We are performing some final testing and readying the site to be set back live.