Here are the scheduled windows for the coming week:

OpenSRS Blogware:
OpenSRS Blogware has a scheduled maintenance window on Wednesday July 15, 2009.

Date: Wednesday July 15, 2009
Time: 02:00 – 02:30 UTC
Duration: 30 minutes
Your local time: Start to End

Service Impact:
We are using this 30 minute window for Blogware to reconfigure our firewall infrastructure. This is a proactive measure in an effort to segregate and isolate critical services on our network to increase overall resiliency during attacks, abuse or hardware failure. The actual downtime we’re anticipating will be about 5 minutes within the window.

During that time blogs, the blog control panel and your Administration Panel will be unavailable. All other OpenSRS services are unaffected.

.ME
There is a 4-hour scheduled .ME registry maintenance on Saturday, July 18, 2009.

Date: Saturday, July 18, 2009
Time: 15:00 – 19:00 UTC
Your local time: Start to End
Service Impact:
Domain provisioning and Whois will be unavailable. Customers who have enabled provisioning queuing will have their orders queued until this complete. Domains will continue to resolve.

OpenSRS Services:
There is a 4-hour maintenance window scheduled for Sunday July 19, 2009.

Date: Sunday July 19, 2009
Time: 03:00 – 07:00 UTC
Duration: 4 hours
Your local time: Start to End

Service Impact: We will use this time to upgrade our core routers to accommodate 10 Gigabit cards. To minimize the impact on your services, traffic will be routed through secondary routers. This action should limit the actual down time to approximately 15 minutes within the 4 hour window.

The following OpenSRS Services will be briefly affected:

• OpenSRS Provisioning and Management (includes: ordering, renewals, transfers, deletion and management of domain names.)
• Storefront (includes ordering, renewals, deletion and management of domain names.)
• Provisioning of Digital Certificates (SSL) and Managed DNS
• Website Builder
• Blogware
• Email Cluster A: Email connectivity via Webmail, IMAP and POP, inbound/outbound mailflow and provisioning via the Mail Administration Center (MAC) will be unavailable during that time. For OpenSRS Email Service Cluster A we will also be upgrading hardware used by the provisioning system. This hardware upgrade will occur in parallel to our network maintenance so there should not be any additional outage to the provisioning system within the window.

All domains will continue to resolve.