System offline on November 21
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:24 am
Hi,
Every year, we've taken the system offline for major maintenance around Thanksgiving, and this year will be no exception. The entire system will be offline on November 21, for around 12 hours, to perform upgrades. While the exact list of upgrades will be added later, right now we anticipate upgrading to PostgreSQL 10, which has support for increased parallelism in queries. We also need to install yet more solid state disks to deal with the enormous problem of the size of the ETH blockchain, and Chris will be installing more daemon servers for SHA-256 mining.
If we decide for expansion, then we will also be migrating to the Enterprise class Internet connection, away from Javapipe and the VPN solution. That will require DNS updates as well.
Thanks,
-Steve
Every year, we've taken the system offline for major maintenance around Thanksgiving, and this year will be no exception. The entire system will be offline on November 21, for around 12 hours, to perform upgrades. While the exact list of upgrades will be added later, right now we anticipate upgrading to PostgreSQL 10, which has support for increased parallelism in queries. We also need to install yet more solid state disks to deal with the enormous problem of the size of the ETH blockchain, and Chris will be installing more daemon servers for SHA-256 mining.
If we decide for expansion, then we will also be migrating to the Enterprise class Internet connection, away from Javapipe and the VPN solution. That will require DNS updates as well.
Thanks,
-Steve