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Related: About this forumDU will be down for maintenance at 1pm ET Wednesday February 28, 2024
Hello everyone,
During the fund drive I mentioned in passing that our next major project is a required update to our database software. Elad has been working on this for the last few weeks and we will be ready to perform the update on Wednesday February 28 at 1PM ET.
During this time, DU will be unavailable. If everything goes smoothly we could be down for less than an hour, however, if we experience any problems then downtime could last longer.
You may be wondering why we're doing this in the middle of the day rather than late at night. The answer is pretty straightforward -- if something goes wrong, our support options are limited outside of normal business hours.
This update is not related to the unexpected downtime earlier today where visitors were experiencing gateway errors -- however, we do hope that the update will reduce such errors going forward.
You may also notice that Journals are currently offline for maintenance. We should have them back up and running some time after the database update is completed.
As usual, thanks for your patience while we work to improve DU!
EarlG, on behalf of Elad -- the DU Administrators

FSogol
(47,437 posts)Cha
(313,766 posts)for Maintenance.
Thank You For DU!
CANADIANBEAVER69
(707 posts)Now I need to plan something at the same time, so I am not refreshing my feed and bunging up the update somehow( if that's even possible)
FakeNoose
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sheshe2
(93,302 posts)John1956PA
(4,371 posts)My thought is that, if there is any DU matter which needs to be addressed during a down interval, a DU administrator will post it on DU's Facebook page.
2naSalit
(97,585 posts)It helps to know why DU will not load.
livetohike
(23,605 posts)
calimary
(87,479 posts)
Silver Gaia
(5,132 posts)riversedge
(77,258 posts)Simeon Salus
(1,521 posts)You guys do the public a service. We appreciate it.
orangecrush
(26,291 posts)Time to feed the machine.
lpbk2713
(43,228 posts)I thought you guys might be doing some maintenance
when I couldn't get through a little after 1 PM EST.
twodogsbarking
(15,174 posts)Aristus
(70,629 posts)You and elad are the best!
greatauntoftriplets
(178,084 posts)AllaN01Bear
(27,161 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(13,578 posts)TomSlick
(12,663 posts)Without the warning, I would freak out when I couldn't load DU at lunch time. Now, I'll muddle through some how.
Good luck with the updates. You will be testing my rule-to-live-by, "To err is human but to really mess things up requires a computer."
Thanks for all you and Elad do for us.
sueh
(1,911 posts)I hope the update goes without a hitch.