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Due to maintenance and equipment upgrades scheduled to start at 00:00 MST/PDT on Sat04Oct08 (i.e. midnight of Fri03Oct08), we anticipate a brief window of possible downtime lasting for up to 25 minutes at that time.

We are physically moving our server hardware to a larger rack in our datacenter with more contiguous free space that can accommodate additional hardware in the same rack, to facilitate our future growth more efficiently.

Every precaution will be taken to ensure integrity of our service and minimize any disruption of service during this period, and we will cancel and postpone these changes at the first sign of any trouble.

The move went fine. Downtime extended to 39 minutes.