Platform-Wide Scheduled Maintenance this Friday, December 2 from 10-midnight (PST)

[Eric Suesz]

We will be performing maintenance on the Ning Platform this coming Friday, December 2^nd, from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. (Midnight) Pacific Time. During this time, all Ning Networks will be unavailable. 

We’re proud to have been able to realize a consistently high uptime over the past year. To keep this consistent record high, we need to perform some crucial upgrades to hardware, systems and databases. We want to ensure your Ning Network stays online and speedy for the next year and beyond. 

What will happen?

• Your network will display a maintenance page matching your current theme customization to let your members know that your network is temporarily unavailable. It will look like this.
• We will update the Ning Status Blog when this maintenance begins and ends.
• We’ll also provide ongoing updates during this maintenance period on the Ning Status Blog and on our @ning Twitter account.
• The Creators Network will also be down for maintenance. The Help Center will also be down for maintenance. We will update here on Creators in this discussion when all is complete.

Tell your members!

We recommend advising your members of this downtime in advance via a broadcast message and/or other notices on your Main Page. We’ve put together some boilerplate language you can use for messaging by simply copying and pasting. Or, tailor it for your members. We’ve included a few options here for you: one formal and one a bit more informal:

We will be performing maintenance on [network_name] this Friday, December 2^nd, from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. (Midnight) Pacific Time. During this time, [network_name] will be unavailable. We hope this won’t be too much of an inconvenience as we work to perform some necessary upgrades.

Just wanted to give everyone a heads-up that we need to perform some simple but necessary maintenance on [network_name] this coming Friday, December 2^nd. We’ll need to take the site down from 10-midnight (PST). During these 2 hours, we’ll simply show a message asking folks to check back later. Thanks in advance for your patience while we tune up the site!

We know that maintenance like this can be an inconvenience, and we appreciate your patience while we perform it. 

Not sure what time this will be where you are? Try this time converter app: 

[Jen]

Thanks Eric. In regards to your comment: "...realize a consistently high uptime over the past year" - - I agree! The downtime on the Ning platform has been minimal, and appreciated. The platform has been way above average for uptime.

[Steve Cyrkin]

I agree, Jen. Almost no downtime since I launched my site in the summer of 2009. I certainly can't say that for my main website--which is why we haven't even considered any other platform.

[Patrick Chappelle]

Thanks for the heads-up, Eric.

[Klaus]

Thank You, Eric :)

[Kris]

thanks for the heads up

[Reese Wilson Jr]

Thanks Eric, you all have done a great job, glad to know maintenance is being done, this will only make our networks better and more reliable.

 

[escucha.com]

Gracias por avisar!

[Aaron]

Hola escucha.com, también puse una discusión sobre este tema en el grupo de creadores en español aquí.

Saludos,
Aarón 

[NingStar]

Thanks for the update

[John Bizley]

Small question for us over in the UK, what will that be for us over here ? Not sure what your time differance is.

[Aaron]

Hey John!

We're 8 hours behind you, so it will be from 0600 to 0800 GMT.

Best,
Aaron 

[John Bizley]

Brilliant, thanks Aaron for the update on that.