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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ulorian - Agent of Chaos" data-source="post: 3787251" data-attributes="member: 16668">One thing that would have me worried about DDI is that the WotC web staff doesn't exactly have a stellar track record: they can't get a search function to work and they shut down for an hour every day for 'maintenance'. I develop enterprise-level web applications (front- and back-end) for a living. This maintenance is most likely a database backup and possibly a database re-optimisation (PostgreSQL VACUUM or similar). Now I'm not a DBA (database administrator), but most databases that I know of support backups/optimisations while the database server is running (albeit at a performance cost, which is why these operations are typically run during low traffic periods).At the risk of sounding uncharitable, to me, this speaks to a lack of experience/expertise on the part of the web developers employed at WotC. Maybe there's something I'm missing; is there a DBA out there who can change my opinion of the WotC web development team?Playing devil's advocate: even if the WotC website maintenance folks aren't that experienced, that doesn't spell doom for DDI. It's possible that they have a separate, more experienced team working on DDI. This makes some sense, as many of the DDI components are far more complex than maintaining a website forum built with a simple 'out-of-the-box' software package.</blockquote>