ELi5: When a server is taken down for routine “scheduled maintenance”, what is typically being done to the servers while they cannot be accessed?
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It’s not that they can’t be accessed, it’s that public access is turned off. The engineers working on the server definitely have access. It could be anything from hardware upgrades/maintenance, to physical relocation, to software upgrades. Most of the time software upgrades can be done transparently, but sometimes you need to do bigger upgrades that require restarts.
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