Scheduled Down Time for Marketplaces

As seen on Envato Notes We have a few hardware upgrades to our servers and network infrastructure coming up, to improve marketplace performance and reliability.

Unfortunately that means the marketplaces will have some scheduled downtime over the next few weeks.

The first of these will be tomorrow (Friday the 6th of June) between midday and 1PM AEST . We expect the marketplaces will only be off the air for about 5 minutes of that hour, but if anything unforseen happens it may be longer.

We’ll keep everyone updated about any other scheduled downtime as we organise it, keep an eye on the Envato Twitter account and Notes for updates.

For anyone who’s interested in the technical details, this outage is to remove our old load balancer from our network. We’re now running a new firewall and load balancer, which gives us better security and faster site performance.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you and thank you for your patience.

Thank you so much for the heads up Carmen!

Carmen said

The first of these will be tomorrow (Friday the 6th of June) between midday and 1PM AEST . We expect the marketplaces will only be off the air for about 5 minutes of that hour, but if anything unforseen happens it may be longer.

time travel..

One suggestion for this. A lot of people aren’t familiar with timezones that aren’t in their general area. So most people have to look up what AEST is and figure out what time that actually is. I think it might make sense to use a U.S. timezone only because U.S. is the biggest market and then more people will know when the downtime is without having to look it up.

If you click AEST in our posts, it tells you the time in your city wherever you are in the world!

or http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ is handy, i use that site a lot