This site is down for maintenance

[luckykaa]

Whhy do some websites need to spend several days down for "maintenance"?  What are they doing?  Do the adminitrators need to take out the website and put it on a ramp while they inspect it for wear?  Surely all they need to do is make all the updates offline, and then spend a few minutes uploading the changes. 

Clerarly there's more to it than that, but what are the maintainers doing?

Comments

[raygungothic.livejournal.com]

Then why is it surprising that it should go down for a few days while they look for the time to work out how to fix something? It's only when there are paid professionals involved that downtime becomes inexcusable...

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

Just seems odd... It's not the sort of thing that suddenly goes wrong, and the choice of date makes it sound like it's a planned outage.

It wasn't meant as a criticism. It's just something that seems a little odd.