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Originally Posted by dacoobob
Out of curiosity, what does "maintenance" typically mean in the context of a website? Changing the oil and topping up the windshield washer fluid on the servers...?
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It can mean a variety of things but typically it means performing software or hardware maintenance tasks like installing operating system updates, making hardware changes, running database scripts that can't be run while applications using the database are running, or making small updates to our own applications. Updates like that may not necessarily be noticeable to an external user but may help improve how things are running in some way, or be needed in preparation for some future software update we plan to roll out.