I just wanted to take a moment to apologize to EasyTweets users for the longer than expected downtime we experienced today.

We took the EasyTweets web site down yesterday (Halloween night) with the intention of moving server infrastructure from our current multi-slice setup at EngineYard to Amazon’s cloud solution via the Heroku platform.

Unfortunately we hit some unexpected bumps in the road during the data transfer portion of the migration. After evaluating our options and consulting with the Heroku team we decided to put things on hold for a few days, while we iron out a few details.
We look forward to completing our migration to the cloud very soon.

Our team has worked tirelessly on this for the better part of the past few weeks. They also gave up their Halloweens and spent roughly 28 hours straight making final preparations and working on the migration. Though it has been a bit frustrating, this is a minor temporary setback that has produced some great “lessons learned” we plan to share in future blog posts.

I want to personally thank Morten and the other Heroku engineers that took a good chunk out of their Sunday to assist us with this process. They have been immensely helpful and responsive to our needs throughout this process. We are excited to leverage the power and flexibility of their platform for our upcoming release of EasyTweets version 2.0.