Like any project the last 5% takes the longest. In this case it was the last .5%. We hit some roadblocks in the 11th hour when we began rolling sites over to the new pagely3.0 system that stopped us dead … Continue reading
Category Archives: Service Alerts
Page.ly3.0 update – Almost there
Last week we did alot of testing on the new system and got to the 99.9% line for the move and an issue came up that prevented us from pulling the trigger. The issue is not worth noting, but we … Continue reading
Pending page.ly 3.0 switch over. Extended Maintenance Window
The time has come. It has been months under development, but this weekend we will begin the switch over to our new infrastructure stack. We want to let everyone know there will be an extended maintenance window beginning September 10th lasting through September 19th. Work … Continue reading
Update on Page.ly3.0 Progress
It’s been a interesting couple of days. We have been working closely with Firehost to bring the new Database cluster online. If you have ever worked with #bigdata you know it can be tricky getting the replication setup across many … Continue reading
Page.ly 3.0 Phase 1 complete
Thank you for your patience this weekend while we made some needed changes to the system. We had originally scheduled this process for Friday night but had to postpone to Sunday night. However the maintenance went off without a hitch and only about 27 … Continue reading
UPDATED Scheduled Maintenance Sunday Night – 1-4 hours.
[Update] We are postponing this event until Sunday night. The Data synchronization is taking longer than expected. As part of our upgrade to the new page.ly 3.0 platform we will have a maintenance window this evening beginning around 12:00am CST. The window will … Continue reading
WP 3.2.1 and HCS plugin re-arrangement.
We have updated all sites to WordPress 3.2.1 and moved two plugins into a new mu-plugins folder. The HCS management plugin and login-lockdown have been moved to a new folder in which they will be “always on”. If you see … Continue reading
DB issues. 7/13
Not a great way to wake up (west coast) or spend your first coffee break (east coast) to see your page.ly powered website unable to connect to the database. The bad news: The database nodes were refusing connections for about … Continue reading
Page.ly 3.0 system moves into testing.
It’s been a 10 week process of sever setup and app re-factoring, but today our new infrastructure system is moving from active development into active testing. This is kind of a big deal for us. Our company has grown from … Continue reading
WordPress 3.1.4 security release, page.ly sites updated.
The WordPress team just released 3.1.4 as a security release. Page.ly customers, please relax and take a stroll in the park or do something else pleasant. We have already updated about 60% of the sites and the remaining will finish over … Continue reading
WordPress.org plugin mischief. Page.ly not affected.
Yesterday the fine folks at wordpress.org announced they discovered and quickly fixed a security issue with a few key plugins, 1 of which we use on all page.ly sites. Kudos to the core team The likelihood of this affecting our sites was … Continue reading
W3 Total Cache 0.9.2 Issues
[UPDATE] 0.9.2.1 seems to fix the main issue. However Minification/Combine of CSS files is still weird… use caution. We recommend users do not upgrade to the newest 0.9.2 version of w3 Total Cache at this time. Seems there is an … Continue reading
Data Center Migration Event
See the image below. The 3 hour planned maintenance window came and went as expected. The unexpected subsequent outages today were caused by some faulty networking hardware at the new facility. Thank you for your understanding and patience. We have been told … Continue reading
[UPDATED] Scheduled Maintenance (Downtime) & Big Upgrades Coming.
UPDATED: Scheduled Maintenance day has changed from 3/26 to 4/09 2 important items for all customers to be aware of concerning your service. Item 1 The first item is a scheduled outage on March 26th April 9 for migration to … Continue reading
Lions and tigers and MySQL oh My! + Future Upgrades
MySQL Outage As many of you had noticed we had an issue today with the database servers. We are still investigating to isolate the exact cause. Outage was about 22 minutes. Essentially the mysql cluster that spends it time lazily … Continue reading