Scheduled Blackboard Downtime 3/10-3/14, 2008

We will be upgrading Blackboard's hardware during the week of Spring Break, March 10-14, 2008. Blackboard, which is now housed on two application servers and one database server will move to three application servers, two database servers, a file server, collaboration server and two load balancers.


We are doing this in order to provide a more robust infrastructure that can handle the increased usage that Blackboard is experiencing. We also do this to provide redundancy. In case one Bb server goes down, another one or two will be there to take up the slack.

We will post updates during the week of the 10-14 as to how we are progressing.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.


Jacob Spradlin
Technology Support Coordinator II
Computer Services
Sam Houston State University