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Up and running from the new data center

We've just finished our move to the new data center. All trains are now running as usual.

The move was mostly uneventful and transition of the services was done without any downtime.

We didn't have a chance to take real photos of the move, so here some fictitious before&after photos for your pleasure:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

{photos CC JosiahRitchie and JOHNNIE W@LKER. Thanks!}/

Moving!

To all our bloggers and partners: We'll be moving to a new data center on the morning of Friday, January 11th. The move is estimated to take about 3 hours. 

During the move our service will be generally available with a few constraints that we want you to know about:

• Our website (www.outbrain.com) will be down during the move. Should you visit the site, you'll meet our moving truck...
• Blogger reports will not be available during the move.
• Any new ratings cast during the move will be recorded but not reflected in the widgets nor via the API. The database will be updated with all recorded ratings as soon as the move is finished.

We do NOT expect any delays with page loads or any other serving related issues (we serve all mission critical files from Amazon's S3 servers to ensure excellent performance).

Should you encounter a problem please feel free to visit our support forum at http://getsatisfaction.com/outbrain. For any emergencies you can email Ori, our CTO: olahav [at] outbain [dot] com

Service interruptions yesterday

While releasing a new version of our service yesterday, we encountered some service interruptions between 2-7pm EST. We've rolled back to our previous version and everything looks good now. We'll try to release again early next week after we find the root cause for these problems.

If you encountered any glitches during this time - we apologize!