Akvo Sites database migration
Scheduled Maintenance Report for Akvo
Completed
Akvo Sites database migration completed successfully.
Posted Jan 28, 2014 - 15:47 CET
In progress
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted Jan 28, 2014 - 15:00 CET
Scheduled
We will be moving the database which supports Akvo Sites onto our new infrastructure. Akvo Sites will be down for around 5 - 10 minutes during this period.

This migration is the initial step in a series of server infrastructure updates being performed to provide better stability for the Akvo Sites installation and reduce or eliminate the service outages we've been seeing over the last few months.

The outages on the current Apache-based setup seem to be caused when some web clients hang onto their connections too long and this locks out any new connections from being made, which then causes the unresponsiveness of the various sites. From our investigations we believe that updating this server to use the newer nginx-based configuration (similar to that already in place for the Akvo RSR and Akvo.org servers) will improve or eliminate these rogue web client locks or at least handle them more gracefully. We apologise for the inconvenience and annoyance of the downtime over the last few months and we trust that you will bear with us in the meantime during any further outages before this work has been completed in the coming weeks.

Akvo Dev Team
Posted Jan 28, 2014 - 09:16 CET