05-10-2020, 04:17 AM
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up. Due to a continually increasing volume of usage/bandwidth over the past few months, I've had to upgrade our server to be able to accommodate both the current and future growth of the board. The server has had some issues recently, and as most know, crashed for over half an hour during the draft. If the current package can't hold up for the draft, there's now way it will be able to handle game days...so there's no other option but to upgrade to platform that can handle extremely high peaks in and still give us top notch performance.
The downtime for the upgrade is expected to be pretty short, estimated to be about an hour to an hour and a half, and will happen sometime during the evening/overnight between the 11th and 14th based on their message:
Hi BJ, your server is now scheduled to be upgraded to the new platform. This upgrade requires downtime. Between May 11 and May 14, 2020 from 8 p.m. - 6 a.m. EST/PST, based on your data center's timezone, your migration to the new platform will begin.
Your upgrade offers many benefits such as safer and more secure environments, increased stability, and an overall better quality of service and increased level of performance.
During the migration, your server will need to be offline while we migrate your data. This means your website will not be available. The migration will not require a change in your IP address or server name.
The downtime for the upgrade is expected to be pretty short, estimated to be about an hour to an hour and a half, and will happen sometime during the evening/overnight between the 11th and 14th based on their message:
Hi BJ, your server is now scheduled to be upgraded to the new platform. This upgrade requires downtime. Between May 11 and May 14, 2020 from 8 p.m. - 6 a.m. EST/PST, based on your data center's timezone, your migration to the new platform will begin.
Your upgrade offers many benefits such as safer and more secure environments, increased stability, and an overall better quality of service and increased level of performance.
During the migration, your server will need to be offline while we migrate your data. This means your website will not be available. The migration will not require a change in your IP address or server name.
- MIGRATION DATE: Between May 11 2020 - May 14 2020
- TIME: 8 p.m. - 6 a.m. EST/PST (Based on your data center's timezone)
- YOUR ESTIMATED DOWNTIME: 50 minutes to 75 Minutes
Sorry for any inconvenience. Hopefully, most won't even notice it. Just trying to ensure we don't have any issues in the future and we're running on the best performing server / platform possible. It's all part of making sure The Bengals Board remains the best fan site on the web for years to come!
Thanks, BJ
