4 hour relocation window announcement
We will be moving the Protopage server cluster to a new, state-of-the-art data center on Sunday 12th February.
We are making this move because one of our core priorities is to provide you with excellent uptime so that you can rely on Protopage being there when you need it. We will also be adding hardware to increase our server cluster capacity.
We estimate that Protopage will be out of service for up to four hours during this move. We have chosen the time that the fewest users are online, which is Sunday morning.
The outage times are as follows:
| EST / US East Coast | 2:30 AM | – | 6:30 AM |
| CST / US Central | 1:30 AM | – | 5:30 AM |
| MST / US Mountain | 12:30 AM | – | 4:30 AM |
| PST / US West Coast | 11:30 PM | – | 3:30 AM |
| GMT / London | 7:30 AM | – | 11:30 AM |
| CET / Zurich | 8:30 AM | – | 12:30 PM |
| Singapore / Hong Kong | 3:30 PM | – | 7:30 PM |
| Tokyo | 4:30 PM | – | 8:30 PM |
| Melbourne | 6:30 PM | – | 10:30 PM |
We will be taking lengthy precautions to ensure that your data is kept safe during the transition (a combination of backups and our mirrored disk arrays). Thank you for bearing with us during this process.
February 6th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
Nonsense, thank YOU for the effort and continuously improving the site! Love it, love it, love it!
February 7th, 2006 at 6:46 am
I’m with weckman. No need to thank us, when YOU’re doing all the good work! :)
February 7th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Thank you for doing this and even trying to do it so that most of us aren’t even aware of it when you move. Looking forward to the move and all the great things that are going to come from this move…so glad I found you guys.
Ladytinker
February 7th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
Protopage pwnage. Now if only I could fire my skools ITS and hire…oh wait, sorry, dreaming.
February 7th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
You guys are seriously doing an awesome job with Protopage. Can’t say enough about it. I’ve been telling as many people about it as possible.
Just simple things like keeping your users posted on things like this makes the difference. Thanks for keeping us updated.
Just out of curiosity, what timezone (part of the world) do you guys get the most traffic from? My guess would be EST, but I could be wrong.
Good Luck with the move.
February 8th, 2006 at 12:33 am
Umm….. you mean Melbourne?
February 8th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
This is exciting news! I have really tried to talk fellow employees into the Protopage concept. The only hesitation has been with speed of access. I really look forward to taking the handcuffs off and telling everyone that they NEED to use this tool.
February 12th, 2006 at 11:41 am
Thanks, i am feeling nude without Protopage. i hope better protopage is waiting us.
February 12th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
All is fine here this Sunday morning in New York City.
Nice smooth transition…keep up the good work :)
February 12th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
thanks eveything is now OK
February 24th, 2006 at 4:44 am
I just want to note, how much I like the fact that you’ve written several major timezones in the announcement.. and not just an EST or CET, and let other people trying to figure it out.
And anyway, it’s just great what you are doing guys!!
April 8th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
Great article. I am just sad I dont know how to reply properly, though, since I want to show my appreciation like many other.
April 8th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
Bonifacius, can’t you think of anything else to say? This one is getting a bit stale…
April 17th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
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