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MERIT Web Server Upgrade - January 17

Posted: 2012-01-16 21:34:26   Expiration: 2012-01-18 16:48:38

Disclaimer: This news item was originally posted on 2012-01-16 21:34:26. Its content may no longer be timely or accurate.

Beginning at 4 pm on Tuesday, January 17, MERIT will migrate web sites from our current merit-web server to a new, virtualized merit-web server. This migration will allow MERIT to provide a more robust, and flexible hosting environment for our web sites.

Outline of Steps

Tuesday, January 17, beginning around 4 pm

  1. Web edits will be frozen.
  2. Websites will remain online for browsing, while the team generates an exact copy of the web sites overnight.

Wednesday, January 18

  1. 7:30 am - Team members will shut down the old web server, while powering on the new virtual web server. There will be approximately a 15 minute outage when web sites will not be available online.
  2. 8 am - Team members will begin checks on migration. Websites will be online for browsing.
  3. NOON - Team members will confirm success of migration and re-enable web editing.

Please email Brenda Spychalla with concerns or questions about this migration, your site and/or editing capacity during this upgrade. Web sites are expected to be online except for the 15 minute outage window around 7:30 am on Wednesday, January 18. We'll send out additional communications as we have status updates.

-- School of Education: Brenda Spychalla