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December 26, 2010

Online Time Clock MTS Downtime 25-26 December 2010

Online Time Clock MTS will be down for several hours on 25 December 2010 as we transition from our current shared hosting environment to a 100% dedicated hosting service. In fact we'll be hosting the site across 5 different servers, one to serve up the website, 3 to run the various databases the system uses, and one server dedicated to data backups and to provide a quick fail over machine in case one of the others crashes or goes down.

The actual changeover to the new systems will only take a few hours but where the majority of the delay (may) occur is waiting for the DNS records to propagate. Basically this means the computers all around the world that help distribute the 'global address book' that matches up domain names (like www.timeclockmts-online.com) to the server computers that host the actual websites can take a little while to update. It could be anywhere from an hour or two for you to see the site on the new server to a couple of days.

Of course we apologize for any lack of availability during this time so we ask you to be patient, the system should be available in time for the new work week.

Posted by markn at December 26, 2010 9:41 AM