Assembla.com will be offline for upgrades on Tuesday, Feb 16 at 8:00 UTC

Posted by Andy Singleton on Fri, Feb 12, 2010 @ 11:27 AM

We plan to release a new version of www.assembla.com on Feb 16. The site will be offline while we make some server changes. Downtime will start at 08:00 AM UTC. We plan to finish uprades in 60 minutes, before 09:00 AM UTC.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this might cause.

We decided to change this from Monday to Tuesday to allow a little more time for testing, and for planning on your part.

We are making changes to the server instrastructure to improve response time and scalability, and support some new repository features. The server changes will include:

Upgrade the application servers to the most recent version of Ruby on Rails and Ruby libraries.
New repository server software that switches all of our communications between app servers and repository servers to Bert-rpc. This replaces the single-threaded dRB libraries. It also removes some NFS sharing, which spread problems between servers if one server went down.
Move ftp publishing to the repository servers, to improve delivery time and reliability.
A new application release with feature improvements and performance enhancements.

On Monday, we will post release notes to inform you of new features.

Thank you.

Tags: repositories, assembla releases

COMMENTS

Take your time! :) Even the greatest services needs to reboot ;D

posted @ Friday, February 12, 2010 2:38 PM by Sune

I'm excited to see these new feature improvements on monday around 9:01 am haha. You're not going to give us a hint? :-D

posted @ Friday, February 12, 2010 2:39 PM by Greg

Goodluck! Wish you all the best to get it done asap.

posted @ Monday, February 15, 2010 6:04 AM by Mauren

Great news!

posted @ Monday, February 15, 2010 12:57 PM by pnv82

I must say, I would have been far more impressed had an email been sent out. I shouldn't have to come looking for the reason for downtime for a paid app.

posted @ Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:38 AM by Nathan

If only we had time to read the blog so that we know about this ahead of time...
Warning EMAIL! Warning EMAIL! Warning EMAIL!

I've got a whole team stuck with no access to the buglist, or ability to commit. That's sh*tload of money in salaries, plus a setback on our pressing schedule, plus... It's after 9am already

posted @ Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:12 AM by Itai

Can't agree more with u Itai.

posted @ Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:25 AM by momo

10:45am and SVN still not available. Any update from the Assembla team??

posted @ Tuesday, February 16, 2010 4:44 AM by Iain

Or a notice at the top of the home / dashboard page, though I subscribe to the blog feed, so I wasn't ill-affected.

But...where are the release notes? :-D

posted @ Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:02 AM by djones

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