- Site maintenance happening 03:30 UTC until 13:00 UTC 27th November 2025
- We will be performing maintenance to our search servers which will be offline for the duration
- While this is happening, the community site should be mostly available, however some widgets may not work correctly, recently created content will not appear in tabbed content widgets, and some functions that rely on search may fail. This should mostly be restricted to registered users, guest users will be mostly unaffected as they will be served stale search results from cache.
- We expect most of our work to be completed early in the release window.
- Once all the work is complete, everything will return to normal without intervention from us.
- More details below
We did some maintenance previously to replace our search servers. Now they are running in the live environment, we are finding they are overpowered compared to what they need to be. We're going to be replacing these with smaller boxes that are just as effective and cheaper to run.
Once the servers are in place, we will then need to rebuild our indexes. This usually takes around 12 hours.
While this runs, we are intending to have a limited cache on some of the widgets that rely on search to populate, such as the tabbed widget that lives on the front page. However, this will not work for all tabs.
Should you create new content, it won't appear in those widgets until the search reindex is completed.
We apologize for any problems this may cause you.
element14 DevOps team