At 6:38AM CST on March 1, 2016, we detected an issue with our database server which caused it to start refusing connections. Upon investigating the issue, we found that the server experienced an out of memory state. We resolved the problem by 7:19AM CST.
We will be taking steps to prevent this issue from recurring in the future.
We will be doing some emergency maintenance to our web server software to resolve an issue with unexpected loading behaviour on a few of our web properties. We expect a short amount of downtime, roughly 30 minutes. This will only affect sites located on our new server.
There will be some network maintenance by our data center provider to the private networking between servers. They do not expect any impact to public-facing connectivity. Private Networking should not be interrupted except short periods of increased latency and minor packet loss.
The email service will also be migrated, however this service will be migrated after all other services have been successfully migrated to the new service provider.