[Cloud] [Cloud-announce] wiki replicas maintenance on 2021-07-22

Hi there, on Thurs July 22nd at 15:00 UTC (08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST) there is a planned network maintenance that will affect the availability of the wiki replica database service. The expected operation window is of about 5 minutes long and it will affect any wiki replicas users in

[Cloud] [Cloud-announce] Possible network interruptions at 15:00 UTC July 20th, 22nd, 27th, 29th

Greetings! Over the next two weeks our network staff will be adjusting and restarting the eqiad network switches. This will affect every server and service running on WMCS, both toolforge and cloud-vps. We don't expect this to result in noticeable downtime, but any connections that are activ

[Cloud] [Cloud-announce] Database as a Service in Cloud VPS

A few weeks ago we rolled out a new service for Cloud VPS users: OpenStack Trove, aka 'Database as a Service.' Trove provides automatic orchestration of stand-alone database instances. In brief, you tell Trove to create a database server with a given size and backend, and it builds and manages