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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