[Completed] SPH websites are moving to a new hosting service

Update 2/17: Migration completed, website admin access has been restored.

As part of ongoing efforts to improve our website infrastructure, the SPH websites are moving to a new hosting service. Some of the benefits of this move are:

  • faster website loading time
  • improved security
  • improved website uptime

The migration timeline may be found below.

If you have any concerns or questions, please contact us at helpdesk@hsph.harvard.edu.

Migration timeline

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Thursday starting at 6 pm, for all websites hosted by the Harvard Chan IT department, the WordPress administration (dashboard) will be unavailable and users will not be able to edit their websites.

All public facing websites may experience small periodic outages during the migration window.

Friday, February 14, 2020

Friday at 8 am, public website traffic will be directed to the new servers. Access to WordPress administration (dashboard) will be restored by 12pm noon at the latest.