Over the next month the Blossom search server will be migrating to more modern hardware and system software. The changes should be transparent unless you have hard-coded Blossom's IP address anyplace in your system. The result should be better performance and better security. The servers will continue to hosted by Amazon AWS.
In addition to system upgrades, the search software itself will be upgraded. In the past the programs were a mixture of 32 and 64-bit. Moving forward, everything will be 64-bit running on Amazon Linux 2. During this testing period you will see more traffic from Blossom spiders as the new system runs in parallel with the old. The target date for completion is early January.
UPDATE. As of December 26, we have begun the process of moving indexes to the upgraded system. During the week of the 26th, index updates and weekly search reports will be delayed as they are checked for correctness. All indexes should be moved before Jan 1. Please report any anomalies you see to support@blossoft.com.
