Dear all,

I pass on the following message:

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Hi All,

We're seeing a sudden and unexpected ramp up in load on the Wiki and Blog in the last week or so (nearly doubled over this time in February, I think!). Which is causing a bit of slow down.

We have a mitigation plan which looks like this:

* Tonight upgrade the server to be much more beefy * Over the next week work on an aggressive schedule to migrate the databases to the new DB instance * Assess whether we can then downgrade the server a little once it is free of MySQL

This does mean some downtime tonight during the upgrade (say, 15 minutes). And potentially a little more downtime over the next week as I move things around.

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Please email tech@wikimedia.org.uk if you experience issues or need assistance.

Regards,

*Katherine Bavage * *Fundraising Manager * *Wikimedia UK* +44 20 7065 0752

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