On Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 4, 2012, between 7:00 AM and 4:00 PM, there will be a par­tial out­age of our Word­Press ser­vice for up to nine hours as OIT’s Enter­prise Servers and Stor­age group moves the cen­tral file servers to the University’s new data center.

This should only affect items in the upload fold­ers. There will be a read-only copy of the upload fold­ers dur­ing this out­age, so all sites should dis­play as nor­mal, and it will still be pos­si­ble to cre­ate and edit any con­tent stored in the data­base, such as pages and posts.

It will not be pos­si­ble to upload new files dur­ing the out­age, and any attempts to do so will result in an error message.

We will update this post with fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the out­age should any­thing change.