We will be performing emergency maintenance on our network during the following period:

• 2007-09-15 (Sat.), 04:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
  (2007-09-15 0800 - 1400 UTC)
  

As you are surely aware, we continue to experience intermittent performance degradations which affect your ability to access your blog, and many of you are experiencing difficulties accessing the control panel.

Tucows, our vendor for the Blogware system upon which our service is based, performed an emergency maintenance last week to address some of the recent performance issues. However, the problems were not solved and these issue have continued.

Tucows has just informed us that in response to the continued performance degradations, they will be conducting an emergency maintenance tomorrow morning Saturday Sep. 15 at 4 AM EDT (Saturday, Sep. 15, 2007 at 08:00 UTC) in order to install additional hardware. Software code adjustments will also be made on during this window which are expected to reduce the length of time required for some database queries which are slowing the system down. They have advised us that the maintenance will require approximately 6 hours.

We sincerely apologize for these problems and for the inconvenience they have caused you, and will continue to work towards bringing the system back to the performance levels you previously enjoyed.