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MAINTENANCE WARNING: Possible downtime early morning Dec 2, 4, and 9 UTC (8:30PM NYC-time on Dec 1, 3, and 8, 2020)
Will there be a maintenance banner during this period in case users experience some difficulty? This heads up is great, but it may not be broadcast to all users across the network before the window ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Saturday, March 28, 2020 at 13:00 UTC (9AM US/Eastern)
A distinct "meta" answer on the how, not the what.
Another great example how interaction between the company and the community can look like: obvious, Taryn put in quite some effort to let us know ...
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Improvements to site status and incident communication
Nice one! This looks like a lot of work for stuff that has low visibility (or, rather, which is only visible when things go wrong and the work is not ready yet), so it's important to say this: we ...
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Planned network maintenance scheduled for Friday, October 1 at 01:00-04:00 UTC (Thursday, September 30 at 9:00 PM-midnight EDT)
During this outage, a banner was displayed on every read-only site:
This site is currently in read-only mode; we'll return with full functionality soon. Follow @StackStatus or visit our status blog ...
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Intermittent "maintenance"
On Friday the 28th around 23:30 UTC, Stack Overflow was hit by a DDoS attack. Unlike previous attacks this month, this one ramped up very quickly and brought SE Network sites down. Once alerted, the ...
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Incident update and uptime reporting
bug status-completed (changed to Stack Exchange Network Health due to length limit)
Header of the dashboard has a typo:
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Unplanned maintenance
Tom here. Manager of Stack's SRE team.
This error message indicates either we are down for maintenance (which is rare, and we usually announce ahead of time) or down due to an outage (but not a total ...
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Most sites seem to be down right now
Sooooo, that sucked. I'm sorry! We've spent all day finding what happened here and finally figured out the interaction of things that took us offline and continued bouncing a bit. It only happens ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Friday, March 18th, 00:30-2:00 UTC (Thursday, March 17th, 8:30-10:00 PM EDT)
Fixed as of 11:50 UTC Friday March 18 2022.
Despite the maintenance being listed as finished in the question body and also in this tweet, Math.StackExchange is still in read-only mode:
(screenshot ...
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Sporadic bursts of extreme slowness across all pages on all sites
We identified and addressed the cause of an intermittent slowness issue. It was not a DDoS attack, but rather resource exhaustion resulting from a site experiment. We are conducting further testing to ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Friday, June 4, 2021 at 12:00am UTC (Thursday June 3 8:00 PM US/EDT)
Now you got me interested (not that I'm not interested or don't value your awesome work otherwise):
We're doing multiple failovers to get some detailed information of failover performance for ...
reneMod
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Planned maintenance COMPLETED for Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 01:00 UTC (Tuesday June 29 9:00 PM US/EDT)
I didn't expect to write two similar answers today, but hey why not...
If this is part of regular maintenance (which implies you can schedule it freely), why only announce it 1 day in advance?
SE has ...
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MAINTENANCE WARNING: Possible downtime early morning Dec 2, 4, and 9 UTC (8:30PM NYC-time on Dec 1, 3, and 8, 2020)
Thanks for the warning. It's certainly not necessary for you to tell us. But thanks for doing so anyway.
Let's all hope it goes well and that there are no problems!
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Incident update and uptime reporting
bugstatus-completed
On the StackStatus site, when hovering over each particular day, a tooltip appears that shows: the date, a status icon, and status text. But the icon doesn't seem to match with ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 23:30 UTC (7:30 pm US/Eastern)
Just don't take too long. I don't know how long I'll be able to wait without commenting on, answering, or editing a post.
It is my life at this point.
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Planned network maintenance scheduled for Friday, October 1 at 01:00-04:00 UTC (Thursday, September 30 at 9:00 PM-midnight EDT)
This year several of the planned maintenances weren't announced on the blog or on twitter. Whenever that happens users ask here to keep those two channels updated, not just because they're linked in ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Thursday, June 15, 2023 at 21:00 UTC
The maintenance is complete. All systems operational. Thanks for playing "How to break your website in 7 easy steps."
Mike FrankStaff
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Improvements to site status and incident communication
While this is no doubt a blessed change, I do have one concern at the moment: would it automatically update with every small incident e.g. short outage after publishing code changes? Or is there some ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 2:00AM UTC (Friday, February 18, 2022 at 9:00PM US/EST)
Migration complete
On February 18, 2022 at 9:41 PM EST US (February 19, 2022 at 2:41 AM UTC), we completed migration and returned the site to read-write mode. Thanks for your patience!
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Improvements to site status and incident communication
Well, let's hope we don't have to visit it too often ... but it looks nice indeed! And responsive too, except for a minor bug on the history page. The forward button is not displayed; this screenshot ...
GlorfindelMod
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Sporadic login/logout issues after February 24 maintenance
By all things we can measure, we believe this issue has been resolved.
What happened? (Working theory.)
The command that moves our sites out of maintenance mode did not complete successfully on one of ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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Is there a policy for extending bounty periods in cases where there is SE network outage or maintenance?
No, they won't. Essentially you're paying reputation so that the question is bountied for the next 7*24=168 hours. As you say, outages are rare and any attempts to compensate for them would be hard to ...
GlorfindelMod
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MAINTENANCE WARNING: Possible downtime early morning Dec 2, 4, and 9 UTC (8:30PM NYC-time on Dec 1, 3, and 8, 2020)
Along the lines of the other questions:
Will there be some sort of live notification? Not everyone is going to keep track of meta, which I suppose is their own fault.
In other words, when you're ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 23:30 UTC (7:30 pm US/Eastern)
How do we know if the maintenance has been finished already or not yet carried out?
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Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 23:30 UTC (7:30 pm US/Eastern)
Once maintenance is complete, will we be treated to a blow by blow story, with personal drama, difficulties overcome, and maybe even a touch of tragedy and romance?
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30 Oct 2023. Stack Overflow read-only, but no information on site status
The application for Stack Overflow encountered an error that caused the site to temporarily become unavailable from our primary data center (New York), as a result traffic was automatically diverted ...
David MusgroveStaff
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Improvements to site status and incident communication
Is there also going to be manual feedback given by staff when outages occur or should we expect all messages on https://www.stackstatus.net/ to be automated?
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Improvements to site status and incident communication
When you say "updated automatically," do you mean that the site will detect instability or outages and proactively update the status, or that it will be automatically updated when an ...
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Planned Imgur Maintenance for Thursday, February 23rd 00:00-01:00 UTC
The update was to increase disk space on an AWS RDS instance.
Update Started - 2023-02-23 12:08 AM UTC
Update Operational - 2023-02-23 12:14 AM UTC
AWS currently in storage optimization state, but ...
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Whats the reason for Stack Exchange maintenance today (2020-02-15)
Thanks for asking this, even though you will most likely be a little disappointed with the answer. At this point, we're not entirely sure what the cause of the outage was and we're still investigating ...
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