Upgrade Maintenance Window for Unread Servers

I am performing a server upgrade that requires a two-hour maintenance window. This will take place Monday, November 10, between 5:00 AM and 7:00 AM Boston time.

Unread Cloud and Local Accounts

During this maintenance window, refreshing Unread Cloud accounts and Local accounts will not work. Unread will operate with Unread Cloud accounts and Local accounts as if the device was offline.

Webpage Text

During the first 15 minutes of this maintenance window, loading and caching webpage text for articles will not work.

For customers syncing with Feedbin, Feedly, Fever, Inoreader, and NewsBlur accounts, the impact of this maintenance window will be limited. During the first 15 minutes, loading and caching webpage text for articles will not work. The rest of the maintenance window will not affect working with those accounts.

Technical Details

I am moving Unread’s servers from Linode to more powerful servers at Hetzner I am upgrading Unread’s database servers from PostgreSQL 15 to PostgreSQL 18, and from Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 24.04.

Update: The upgrade completed as expected. Unread Cloud servers are now operating with increased capacity.