Web Server - Maintenance Notification

Apr 2016

This is a notification that we will be upgrading the MySQL database version on our web servers from MySQL 5.5 to 5.6. If you recieve this notice you have at least one account on this server. Since this is not a major version upgrade, we're not expecting any issues but you may notice a brief period of down time between 2am and 3am Tuesday night/Wednesday morning.

Maintenance Window: Tuesday April 19th, 2016 - Wednesday April 20th, 2016 02:00 AM to 03:00 AM CST

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