What happens during a Google Cloud maintenance?
Faaaster hosts your sites on Google Cloud, which regularly updates its servers and databases. During these maintenances, operations on your sites (restarts, updates, restores…) are paused until the operation ends, and a banner tells you so at the top of the application; depending on the type of maintenance, some sites may restart briefly.
The three types of maintenance
Maintenance | Effect on your sites |
|---|---|
Server update | Some sites may be briefly unavailable while they restart on another server: servers are updated one after the other. |
Update of the control infrastructure | Your sites stay online. |
Database maintenance | Sites may be briefly disrupted, usually for less than a second. |
In all three cases, operations on sites are paused until the operation ends.
When do they happen?
Google only updates our servers during our maintenance slots: on Wednesday and Sunday nights, from 11 PM to 5 AM (Paris time in winter; midnight to 6 AM in summer). It does not do so at every slot, only when a new version is available. A server update can take a few hours.
Database maintenance happens on Sunday evening, from 10 PM (Paris time in winter; 11 PM in summer).
Being notified in advance
When Google announces a maintenance in advance, a banner announces it in the application up to 4 days before, with its date. You can close it: it does not come back. Its View the status page link opens the page that follows the state of the platform, where the maintenance is also announced.
Google does not always announce its updates in advance. The banner of the maintenance in progress appears in every case.
During the maintenance
- A Google Cloud maintenance in progress banner appears at the top of the application, with its start time and its effect on your sites. It stays as long as operations are paused.
- The status dot at the bottom of the menu turns blue, Maintenance in progress, when no incident is ongoing.
- On the status page, the affected service shows the Maintenance badge.
- If you start an operation on a site, it is not run: a message recalls the maintenance in progress and states « Cette opération est suspendue jusqu’à la fin de la maintenance : réessayez dans quelques minutes. » (this message is shown in French).
After the maintenance
The banner becomes Google Cloud maintenance completed: "Operations on sites resume in a few minutes." Operations stay paused for about ten minutes after it ends, while sites settle. You can then start the refused operation again.
The banner being gone does not by itself confirm that a maintenance is over: it can also disappear when its state can no longer be confirmed.
Good to know
- Your automatic backups are not lost: those planned during the maintenance are made within two hours after it ends.
- No action is needed on your side: the maintenance ends by itself.
- A site that restarts during a server update comes back with its usual content and configuration.
Updated on: 11/11/2026
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