Main site and Forum maintenance Friday 14th Feb 1-7am

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi everyone

Just to let you know the site and forum will be closed for maintenance this Friday (14th) from 1am to 7am. You'll see a maintenance page when you visit.

Here's what our techies say:

"This is to enable the encryption of the storage layer of our mainsite database; there will be no noticeable change to the way the site operates."

Andrea

jamesd

I'm surprised that it is necessary to take more than a very brief outage to carry out this work. The first approach that comes to mind is a straighforward failover to the redundant system with a few seconds of outage or less. That also provides an easy way out if there is a problem with the process.

Good to see that this work is being done, though. Nice move!

Skulls

If it was that easy and quick then the IT company wouldn't be able to charge so much!

First min take site down
6.9 hours playing games
15 mins from end put site back up so Martin thinks you done a good job and finished early!

keshimonster

But its freebie friday lol!!