Dallas Hardware Maintenance 1/5

Start Date: Thursday, May 1st, 2014, 2 AM (CDT) or 3 AM (EST)
End Date: Thursday, May 1st, 2014, 5 AM (CDT) or 6 AM (EST)

Scope of work:

RAM upgrade for all machines located in our DAL1/DAL2 (Dallas) data center.

We have noticed that long running, duplicate Idera backups add significant load on all machines in Dallas using new RAID arrays, which may add both I/O and RAM pressure, and when the instance has any internal performance issues due to contrib code or configuration, it may result with slower processing for all sites in your instance during all backup windows or during very common recently DoS attempts caused by large spambots networks trying to mass-register new accounts, even if it is not allowed in Drupal configuration by default.

Expected downtime:

Please note that while the maintenance window is 3 hours, the hardware (RAM) maintenance itself which will be carried out by our facility OnSite engineers is estimated at 15-30 minutes per machine.

We thank you for your continued support while we work to make these improvements.