SCHEDULED DOWN TIME: Friday 6th December

Published 22/11/2024 at 12:40:12 by Chris Welch.

I've had notice from the web host that our server is due to be migrated to a new infrastructure.  This is scheduled to start on Friday 6th December at 14:00.  The website will be down whilst the migration takes place.

The process is a disk-level clone (so nothing will visibly change, the server is just moving to a new environment exactly as-is.  An original copy of the old server will be kept for a week after migration for safety.  I'm unsure exactly how long this will take, but we don't use a lot of disk space, so I don't anticipate it taking long; the host estimates 45 minutes for servers that use 60GB of disk space; we use quite a lot less than this.

There is also an IP address change that will happen at the same time - this, actually, could take a longer time than the migration, because any changes to DNS (which is what your browser uses to translate mkttl.co.uk to an IP address) can take 24-48 hours to propagate through the internet.

The long and short of it is, the website will be offline from 14:00 on Friday 6th December until it's back up, hopefully later in the afternoon, but potentially over the weekend - there are three matches due to take place Friday night (plus whatever comes in a little late), so those results may be a little delayed in being entered.