User blog comment:Crucially/Explanation of the Sunday outage/@comment-473563-20091105064118

The topic at irc #wikia told me what I needed to know and I took a break and went fishing !


 * In Iowa we had the luxury of closing down the data center for 24 hours while we put it in place.
 * If you needed to shutdown Wikia communities for 24 hours to do at San Jose what you did at Iowa in 24 hours then I reckon your community of wiki contributors and even browsers would understand (or at least not care very much so long as due notice is given). It seems preferable to dragging out a staged process over 2 months.

Either way, sharing the background on this incident shows you care and that is truly appreciated.