During the night from Friday to Saturday, July 26th, mite will be unavailable from 3:30 to approximately 6:30 AM CEST, i.e., for around three hours.

We’ll move mite to new servers with a new server architecture. We’ll have to migrate quite a lot of data, and therefore cannot avoid this longer-than-usual downtime. We ask for your understanding: This maintenance is necessary so mite will be fast, reliable, and secure for years to come. By the way, while we do move mite to a new server cluster, German SysEleven will continue to host it. They have been taking good care of mite for many years.

We have rehearsed the move several times and thoroughly tested the updates, of course. Nevertheless, some processes will probably perform a little differently under real production load. We'll thus tweak a little here and there during the days after the move. But we're optimistic that – scheduled maintenance aside – you won't notice a thing.

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Update: Maintenance was completed as planned. mite was unavailable betweem 3:40 and 6:17 AM.

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