Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ZephyrBlu 65 days ago
Scheduled maintenance in 2026 is insane
2 comments

The biggest that comes to mind would be Steam.
Blizzard still brings World of Warcraft down every Tuesday for maintenance. It's down right now to apply a new content patch, which they estimated would take 8 hours.

https://us.support.blizzard.com/en/help/article/358479

And yet, banks do it all the time, even daily.

And I very well remember when Rackspace took down their object storage for weeks in their London zone, because they ran out of hard drives.