---
title: Hoptoad Downtime Sunday at Midnight
teaser: Explanation of recent Hoptoad outage.
tags: news,airbrake
author: Tammer Saleh
published_on: 2008-10-25
---

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Hoptoad has been growing like a little toddler - each set of shoes proving too
small for the next.  In just ten months, our database has collected almost [7
million errors](http://hoptoadapp.com/welcome), and has grown to 73GB (that's
19,6,512 words for you old-schoolers out there).

Because of this, we have to schedule a teensy weensy little **DOWNTIME** this
weekend on **Sunday at midnight** for about half an hour while we move to a new
database cluster.  We expect that ya'll won't even notice, but we want to make
sure you're aware just the same.

As part of this little announcement, we'd like to emphasize that the hosting
Hoptoad has been receiving from [Engine Yard](http://engineyard.com/) has been
phenomenal.  They have been on top of any issue we might have had well before we
knew about it, and they've been responsible and vigilant in every point of
interaction.  If your livelihood depends on your Rails application staying
alive, then put yourselves in their hands.  You won't regret it.

FYI: _Hoptoad/Airbrake was sold to RackSpace and is now called [Airbrake Bug Tracker](http://airbrake.io)_.