Questions tagged [maintenance]
For questions or announcements on Meta Stack Exchange about Stack Exchange maintenance work.
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Stack Overflow Signup and Account Recovery maintenance window Wednesday, August 27, 2025 from 11pm - 11:30pm UTC (7pm to 7:30pm ET)
[UPDATE - Maintenance has been completed.] We have planned maintenance to update our site sign-up and account recovery systems. During this time, site sign-ups and account recovery links may give an ...
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Site maintenance scheduled starting Monday, June 2, 2025 from 13:30 - 14:30 UTC (9:30am - 10:30am ET)
[UPDATE - Maintenance completed] We have planned maintenance as part of our migration to GCP. Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange sites may go into read-only mode, in which portions of the site may be ...
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(COMPLETED) Remaining Site Moves From Data Centers to GCP (Google Cloud Platform) Happening Over the Next Several Weeks
[UPDATE - This was completed. All Q&A sites have their databases in GCP now.] Over the next several weeks, we’ll be migrating the remaining Stack Exchange sites from our data centers to the GCP (...
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Trying to join a community shows an error message: “You cannot register at this time”
note to moderator: the solutions in the questions marked as duplicate didn't work Today I was trying to join to the History of Science and Mathematics community but I got the following error message ...
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(COMPLETED) Stack Overflow migration maintenance Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from 13:30 UTC to 21:30 UTC (9:30am to 5:30pm ET)
[UPDATE - Maintenance has been completed successfully.] We have planned maintenance to migrate Stack Overflow and Stack Overflow Meta from our data centers to the GCP (Google Cloud Platform). Stack ...
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Network-wide maintenance scheduled starting Wednesday, March 26, 2025 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm ET (13:30 to 16:30 UTC)
Update: This experiment is now concluded. We have planned maintenance to conduct a back-end experiment as we run some caching tests in preparation for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) move. Stack ...
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Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE) refresh will skip one week
Stack Exchange is currently in the process of migrating critical infrastructure to the cloud, as outlined in this post, and we are on approach to major database migration milestones. We're currently ...
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(COMPLETED) Meta Stack Exchange site maintenance scheduled starting Monday, March 17, 2025 from 13:30 UTC to 14:30 UTC (9:30am to 10:30am ET)
[UPDATE - Maintenance completed.] We have planned maintenance to move the Meta Stack Exchange site and its databases to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). During the maintenance, the Meta Stack Exchange ...
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(COMPLETED) Site maintenance scheduled starting Tuesday, Mar 11 through Thursday, Mar 13 2025, 1:00 UTC to 6:00 UTC (Mar 10 - 12, 2025 9pm-2am ET)
[UPDATE 2 - Maintenance has been completed. It went so well that the third night of planned maintenance is no longer needed. Marking this complete.] [UPDATE - Night one completed. Two more to go.] We ...
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(COMPLETED) Site maintenance scheduled starting Thursday, Feb 27 through Friday, Feb 28 2025, 2:00 UTC to 7:00 UTC (Feb 26 - 27, 2025 9pm-2am ET)
[UPDATE 3 - The final portion of the maintenance scheduled for tonight has been canceled, so this particular maintenance announcement is complete. We'll create a new announcement post when the other ...
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(COMPLETED) Chat maintenance - Tuesday February 18th @ 14:45 UTC (Tuesday February 18th @ 9:45 AM ET)
We have planned maintenance that will impact our chat servers. The window is Tuesday February 18th @ 14:45 UTC (Tuesday February 18th @ 9:45 AM ET) (Aka: nowish). During the maintenance window, chat ...
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Why is StackOverflow in Maintenenace mode but not in Maintenance Mode? [duplicate]
Nothing about on going Maintenance post here. But on my main Browser (Firefox 103.0.3 on Windows 10) I get. But in A private browser Window it is not Maintenance Mode or in a different Browser it is ...
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(COMPLETED) Public Site API Maintenance -Wed, November 20, 2024, 10:00 PM-11:00 PM EST (Thurs, November 21, 03:00 UTC - Thurs, November 21, 04:00 UTC)
Update: API maintenance has been completed. We will be doing a quick failover test of api.stackexchange.com on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 10:00 PM-11:00 PM EST (Thursday, November 21, 03:00 UTC - ...
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We are performing maintenance on our authentication service on November 19th
On November 19th, 2024 (next Tuesday), we’ll be performing maintenance on our authentication service, which controls user sessions and logins, in order to migrate it to Google Cloud Platform. We ...
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We’re (finally!) going to the cloud!
Stack Overflow has existed since 2008. At that time, it was a logical choice to run this from our own hardware in a datacenter. The company started with a small group of people who owned every aspect ...