During our normal scheduled weekly maintenance window, we’ll be doing some behind-the-scenes work that we don’t expect will affect site operations.  In other words, we don’t think the site will be either down or in read-only mode.  That being said, Murphy’s Law is always in full effect, so keep your fingers crossed…

Assuming things go according to plan, you may see moments of site slowdown as we rotate machines in and out of some of our clusters, but we expect them to be relatively minor and short-lived.

Oops, we weren’t able to procure the necessary parts in time today to make this work. We might try to do this late tomorrow (5/2) night at 10:00pm PDT. We’ll keep you updated here if we do, sorry!

During our normal weekly scheduled maintenance window tonight, we’ll be making some database architecture changes.

We hope and anticipate that the site will remain up the entire time, though it may go into read-only mode for a short while.  In the event we have to take the site offline, we’ll do everything we can to minimize the downtime.