We're updating the hosting environment that your Oncord website runs on.
What this means:
- Migrations will occur between 20th December 2022 and January 15th 2023.
- When your site is migrated, it will be set into a read-only state, transferred to new servers and reactivated.
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There may be maintenance periods of up to one hour - we have structured the migration to involve as little downtime to your
site as possible during non-peak hours.
- After migration, expect greater performance and peace of mind with security.
- Clients based in Europe will benefit from our new European data centre.
- No action from you is necessary.
The details...
Our prior hosting environment was built using scripts and third-party software to initialise and configure servers. This worked well,
however technology has evolved.
The first step in this technological evolution was the invention of 'containers'. Rather than using scripts to install and
configure software on servers, containers are image snapshots of the software that have been prebuilt by a developer.
Kubernetes takes this a step further allowing you to deploy clusters of containers.
Improved security
Configuration consistency
Oncord presently has data centers in Australia and the USA. Through the use of containers
Redundancy and improved uptime