Datacentre power maintenance scheduled for Thursday 12 January

5th January 2017

The datacentre in which our servers are located has sent us the following advisory:

On the 12th of January 2016, our local NDO (SSE) will be performing maintenance on the portion of the grid which provides our HV feeds. For the duration of this maintenance we will be running on generator power only.

Switching to generator power for maintenance work is a routine activity that has been carefully planned for. We do not therefore expect any customer service interruption, but all standard maintenance should be considered an at-risk period.

The maintenance is scheduled to take place between 0800 and 1730 GMT. In line with this message, we do not expect there to be any interruption to web or email services. However, if the generators fail for longer than the UPS is able to handle the load, there could be an interruption to services.