Short planned outage

[Paul C]

There will be a short planned outage of the website at 12:45am, to allow a software upgrade. The site should be back by 1am

[GUMPY]

Is outage a modern way of saying the system will be unavailable

[Paul C]

Probably. I don't know what to call them, so I chose a term which hopefully most either understand, or can look up.

[Guest]

Probably. I don't know what to call them, so I chose a term which hopefully most either understand, or can look up.

Seems reasonable to me.

 

outage

ˈaʊtɪdʒ/

noun

a period when a power supply or other service is not available or when equipment is closed down.

[Loafer]

Nobody'll look it up, Paul. They'll just ask here!

[Paul C]

Nobody'll look it up, Paul. They'll just ask here!

 

Not if there's an outage! I am guessing, some people stayed up until 12:45am to see what would happen. And even fewer stayed up until 1am to see what was different.