Server Backend Upgrades 6/19 and 6/26 1-4pm WST

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SERVER BACKEND UPGRADES

Now that school is out (yay!), we will be upgrading Windlyn's back end. This will increase speed (decrease response time) and increase simultaneous throughput (number of simultaneous connections). We are scheduling 2 separate times, 3 hours each, a week apart, to take the server offline. (These upgrades are rather complex so they must be done in stages.)

Here are the dates and times:

Upgrade 1: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 from 1-4pm WST - completed
Upgrade 2: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 from 1-4pm WST

Note that we may be back online sooner. (3 hours give us some wiggle room when the almost inevitable "snag" rears its ugly head!)

Thank you for your understanding and support!

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SERVER BACKEND UPGRADE 1 COMPLETED

We were back online in 1 hour! (We hit a small issue, but it was quickly resolved.)
Remember that this is the first of two upgrades with the next scheduled for:

Upgrade 2: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 from 1-4pm WST

Please see Server Backend Upgrades 6/19 and 6/26 1-4pm WST for the whole scoop.

Thank you for your understanding and support!

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SERVER BACKEND UPGRADE 2 NOTES

Backend Upgrade #2 ran into several problems. Each was addressed one by one until we discovered that Windlyn's code needs some tuning to be fully compatible. In the end we were forced to roll everything back to the previous upgrade (which seems to be solid). Yep, a bummer, but we see a path forward from here.

We will attempt Backend Upgrade #2 again when we're ready. Windlyn was back up within the allotted time, but that's when we discovered that things were not well, so about an additional half hour of downtime was experienced. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Thank you for your understanding and support!