To fix some faulty power hardware that failed yesterday evening, our datacenter provider is performing emergency maintenance on some power equipment in our Dallas facility this evening between 10PM PT and 4AM PT Sept 25th – Sept 26th. The nature of this maintenance will require that all servers connected to the faulty power equipment be powered down prior to the maintenance beginning. This is to ensure the safety of the electricians working on the equipment. Unfortunately, many mission critical WordPress.com servers will be affected. We are currently making the necessary preparations to minimize the impact of the maintenance, but once the maintenance begins, depending on how the power transfer proceeds, there may be a partial service interruption. We have additional staff on call to deal with any possible issues that may arise. We expect this maintenance to take no longer than 30 minutes to complete, although the window is 10PM – 4AM, we hope to be finished by 11PM Pacific time.
Once the maintenance is complete, we will update this post with additional details. Sorry for the short notice, but unfortunately it was unavoidable in this case.
UPDATE: The maintenance has been completed successfully. Between 11:00PM and 11:30PM, WordPress.com was in a global read-only mode so sites were viewable, but no new content could be posted. By 11:33PM Pacific time, everything was fully operational.
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