News & Updates

Migration To a New Data Center

By Paolo Dona — Jan 11, 2012

Hello and happy new year!

At the end of last year we’ve been busy upgrading the internal architecture of NiftySchool.

We’ve been updating libraries and the web framework we use (Ruby on Rails 3) in preparation of a move to a new, faster data center.

While the update caused some discomfort as we had to freeze the codebase and postpone some of the features we planned, it was necessary to guarantee adequate system performance to our growing customer base.

The new architecture will allow us to support you better and scale the system up as we expand our business in 2012.

The migration will take place on:

Sunday 15 January 2012, starting from 6:00 AM UTC

The interruption should last about two hours, but the new servers might not be available for up to 24 hours (due to DNS propagation delays).

During the migration you may experience intermittent access to the system and we suggest not to plan any work on the system for the day.

No intervention is required on your part, your data will be backed up and automatically moved to the new servers so that you can resume your work as usual on Monday morning. You should notice an increased responsiveness of the website as soon as the migration is over.

As a backup measure, we will also keep the old servers active for a couple of weeks so that we can roll back immediately if needs be.

Should you have any questions about the migration, feel free to get in touch sending an email to info@niftyschool.com.

Thanks for your continued support & we hope this change will make NiftySchool more enjoyable than ever!