Platform maintenance: planned work and what it means for you
Why a hosting platform needs maintenance windows at all, what a well-run one looks like from your side, and how to make your service survive a restart.
What this covers
Every platform occasionally has to do work that affects running services: patching the systems underneath, moving a service to different hardware, or updating a database version. The part that matters to you is how that work reaches your application. Usually it looks like a restart, so a service that handles the shutdown signal cleanly and keeps no state in memory rides through it without anybody noticing, while one that assumes it will run forever drops requests. Database maintenance is the heavier case, because a database cannot be moved without a moment where writes stop.
A published maintenance policy and schedule is not available in the Voroa docs today.