On Sunday the 21^st of August we will upgrade our hardware with our hosting provider.

This means that the E-conomic accounting system will be unavailable from 11:01 pm on August 20 – 5:00 am August 21.

The upgrade

The purpose of this upgrade is to make the equipment that E-conomic is currently running on even better.  We will also simultaneously be upgrading our bandwidth.

We are quite proud of the security already built into E-conomic (you can read more about security here) but during this downtime we would like to add even more functionality.

The cost

Don’t worry! Our investment in new and better equipment will not cost you a thing.

To perform the upgrade however, we need 6 hours of downtime for the E-conomic system and that is the only price you will have to pay.  We believe that this downtime is worth the benefits that you our customers will get for it. We hope to avoid this downtime bothering you in any way by informing you in advance.

There will be six hours of downtime on Aug. 20-21

 The specs

This coming upgrade will ensure that if the Internet connection is lost in one of the data centres that E-conomic is placed in, your connection will automatically switch over to a backup connection.  Today, this is solved manually, by a technician fiddling with some wires.

But as we all know, even technicians are only human. Just like us, they can get stuck in snowstorms, traffic and the like. This means that precious time may be lost before they reach the data centre and switch to the backup connection if necessary.  Therefore, we think it is important to perform the upgrade to an automatic system.

Then when the upgrade itself is complete, we need to test that everything works according to plan before we reopen access to E-conomic.

Stay informed

As usual, we will update you here on our blog with information before, during and after the downtime.

We will make sure that you are well informed about what the status of the upgrade is and when you can log in to E-conomic once again.

As always, don’t hesitate to email us if you have any questions or comments!

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