In keeping with our continued efforts to strengthen performance and scalability of our service, we are planning two events in the next week that you should be aware of as they may impact your use of TypePad.
Scheduled Maintenance - this Saturday Night – Database Server Upgrade
Starting from Saturday night at 11:00 pm PST thru Sunday morning at 4:00 am PST, we will be taking a scheduled maintenance window to upgrade our database server. Upgrading the database server will enable us to further scale our operations and deliver stronger and more reliable performance.
Service Change – Tuesday, February 7th - Retiring old and temporary TypePad IP Addresses
One of the last steps in our data center migration is retiring our old and temporary IP addresses for TypePad’s published weblogs. We moved to new IP addresses for the TypePad application and published weblogs in November but continued to accept traffic on older addresses to ensure a smooth transition. It is now time to retire these.
As of 9:00 am PST on Tuesday, February 7th, We will no longer be accepting weblog traffic on IP addresses 66.151.149.10 (old IP) or 216.129.107.21 (temporary IP used during data center move)
The vast majority of our customers and readers of their blogs will not be impacted by this change.
There are a small number of customers (less than 100, based on our analysis) who are currently using the Domain Mapping feature on TypePad and have hardcoded their domain to either of these IP. As of 9:00 am on Tuesday, their weblogs will be inaccessible at their mapped domain name. Viewers of these domain mapped weblogs will be presented with information explaining this service change and steps necessary to remap their domains.
In preparation for this event, we have emailed these customers on nearly a weekly basis, informing them about this change, and encouraging them to modify their settings at their domain registrar. If you are one of those customers, or you feel that your blog may be affected by this IP address change, we encourage you to
Our support team will work closely with you to help you understand whether your domain will be affected by this change, and how to work with your domain registrar to make the appropriate changes.
We will be using status.sixapart.com to provide more up-to-date information about both Saturday night’s maintenance window, and the IP address retirement on Tuesday morning.
See also: TypePad Maintenance Update