Planned Maintenance for Shizzow on Saturday at 2pm

We wanted to let everyone know that we are preparing for some maintenance on Saturday at 2:00pm. If all goes well, there should only be 15 - 30 minutes of downtime.

We have been running Shizzow in a shared environment along with a couple of other web sites, and now that our baby is growing up, it requires a little more room to grow. We’re moving Shizzow onto a dedicated environment where our testing so far is showing some improved performance and faster response times. It will also help to avoid issues like the one last Friday where Shizzow was down for about 15 minutes due to an issue with one of the other websites on the server consuming more than its fair share of system resources.

Most of the preparation for the move has already been completed. We’ll need to put the site on the old server into maintenance mode, pull a final copy of the db, and then wait about 10 minutes for DNS propagation. If you see the down for maintenance screen, just wait about 15 minutes and try again. Please let us know as soon as possible if you see any strange behavior over the weekend, and log any issues on Get Satisfaction.

We will use the Twitter account for any last minute updates, reminders, or issues encountered during the move.