[Editorial] Scheduled Downtime for Maintenance

Hi All!

We will be upgrading our servers for things listed below tonight (after 1 hour).

We are expecting downtime from 30 minutes to 1 hour. As we have so many things to upgrade/improve, downtime is unavoidable. 🙁

All guest bloggers requested to save their posts/work before 3AM if they are planning to write tonight.

Things we will be doing!

• Upgrade Ubuntu 9 to Ubuntu 10 (LTS)
• Upgrade WordPress MU 2.9.2 to WordPress 3.0
• Turn on nginx fastcgi_cache
• Migrate from php-fastcgi to php-fpm
• Say bye-bye to Wp-Super-Cache and use w3TotalCache with nginx
• Enable CDN on other blogs
• Remove domain-mapping plugin (we don’t need it anymore for domain mapping to work, in our case at least! See this post)
• Enable APC and memcache and configure w3Total Cache to use these high-performance extensions (will post about this later on wpveda)

Following blogs/sites will be affected…

• rtCamp
• rtBlogs
• Devils Workshop
• WpVeda
• FacebookKnol
• OrkutDiary
• CricTalks
• Blogger To Wp Migration
• Media Bp

Also if any other sites in our network or hosted/managed by rtCamp goes down please bear with us.

We will be coming back with faster server! Really… 😉

Update: Maintenance is over with 20 minutes downtime total. Items striked out are skipped for various reasons.

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