# Mastodon Maintenance Policy We adhere to structured maintenance windows for **chatwithus.live** to ensure reliability without disrupting users. ## Weekly Maintenance - **Window**: Sundays, 7 PM – 9 PM Eastern Time - Routine updates (OS, Docker images, dependencies) - Asset rebuilds, minor database tune-ups ## Emergency Maintenance - Patching vulnerabilities (e.g., CVEs) - Redis/PostgreSQL crash recovery - Federation or relay failures ## Notifications - Posted to Mastodon via @administration at least 1 hour in advance - Maintenance announcements also pushed to the server status page ## Failures During Maintenance - If the instance does not recover within 30 minutes, full rollback initiated