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Add blog post about Postgres downtime (#347)
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title: Read the Docs Maintenance Window - February 14
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date: 2025-01-31
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description: Upcoming upgrade for PostgreSQL to ensure minimal impact for our users.
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category: Engineering
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tags: aws, rds, postgres, upgrade
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authors: Eric Holscher
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status: published
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image: /images/aws-rds-upgrade.png
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image_credit: Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@scottrodgerson?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash">Scott Rodgerson</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/black-and-yellow-striped-line-BwMcYuHI9OI?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash">Unsplash</a>
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We wanted to make you aware that on **Friday, February 14 at 2:00pm PST (5:00pm EST, 22:00 UTC)**, Read the Docs will be having a scheduled downtime of approximately 2 hours.
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This will impact both **Read the Docs Community** and **Read the Docs for Business**.
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We expect the downtime to only last for 15-30 minutes, but we are scheduling a longer window to account for any unforeseen issues.
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During this maintenance window, public documentation will continue to be online but new documentation builds will not trigger and the Read the Docs dashboard will be unavailable.
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New builds and webhooks will begin processing once the maintenance is over.
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To ensure minimal impact for our users, we are performing this upgrade during a Friday afternoon which is one of our lowest usage periods.
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This maintenance window is for a required database version upgrade to PostgreSQL from our hosting provider, which we couldn’t perform in place.
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While these kinds of things do happen from time to time, we haven’t had a scheduled downtime on Read the Docs in a few years. Doing this helps us ensure that our services perform well and have up-to-date security.
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Thanks for your understanding of this maintenance downtime.
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Read the Docs team

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