Yesterday GoGrid finished the rollout of a series of updates designed to make the GoGrid Windows end user experience even better. While not a major feature release, there are some important items to note moving forward.

Windows Image Updates

With this update, there are a few things that GoGrid users should be aware of, specifically:

• The following GoGrid Windows images have been updated with the latest (as of February 2010) Microsoft Windows Security Hotfixes (see table below).
• Windows image names are now more consistent with Microsoft naming standards
• This only applies to GoGrid Virtual Server Images and does not affect Partner or Personal GoGrid Server Images (MyGSIs).

The full list of updated Windows images is below.

For more details, please visit the Windows Server Images section on the GoGrid Wiki.

New RAM Allotments for Windows Virtual Servers

In order to ensure stability and optimal performance, we are now setting recommended RAM Allotments minimums and maximums for Windows Server Images. We have been working closely with Microsoft to implement the best range possible for any new servers that are deployed on GoGrid. Do note, these limits do not affect currently deploy Windows Virtual Servers.

We are polishing up some great enhancements to GoGrid and the results of our efforts will be live shortly. To that end, please be notified that we are performing Scheduled Maintenance in order to roll out new functionality and features which does require some downtime of the GoGrid Portal. This information has already been delivered to existing GoGrid customers via email and is also available on the GoGrid Status Blog.

Scheduled Maintenance Details

Infrastructure Update:
Tuesday, February 9th, 19:00 – 23:00 PST
(Wednesday, February 10th, 03:00 – 07:00 GMT)

Customer Impact:

The GoGrid “my.GoGrid.com” customer portal and API will be unavailable for up to 4 hours while we upgrade our infrastructure. There will be no impact to existing GoGrid VMs, load balancers or cloud storage during this time.

Maintenance Details:

GoGrid is making software improvements to the GoGrid customer portal and API.

Inquiries:

If there are any additional questions before, during or following the maintenance, please direct them to the GoGrid Support Center at 877-946-4743 or +1-415-869-7444, or contact us via the customer service portal at https://my.gogrid.com. (Note: during the scheduled maintenance, you will NOT be able to access the GoGrid Customer Service Portal for support so we recommend using the phone numbers listed above.)

For the latest details on GoGrid’s systems & Data Center status, please visit our system status blog: http://www.GoGridStatus.com

For More Information

Once the release is completed, we will be updating the GoGrid blog as well as the GoGrid Wiki with information about the new features and enhancements. Be sure to subscribe to the blog feed for up-to-date information. You can also get email delivery of blog posts by subscribing here. Lastly, you can get real-time information from our Twitter stream by following @GoGrid there.