Site maintenance this weekend

There will be a minor interruption to service on Saturday or Sunday morning while I upgrade the site to 2.8.2 and move the massive single database into 256 smaller ones.

This will make the site more secure and a little bit easier to maintain via phpmyadmin but there can be no database writes made during the move so I’ll have to switch it all off and get it done as quick as possible.

It’s a reasonably big job, mainly because of the database backups and other shennanigens that has to go on, I’ll probably do a screencast and see if I can shed some light on the upgrading to multi-databases thing and put it up for all to see.