You guys misunderstood.
The maintenance window APPEARS to be multiple hours, but it's only a few minutes. Local server time (In Texas) is 3am, so it's 4am on the east coast, 2am where I am, 1am on the west coast.
The time it takes to actually run the maintenance is about 5-10 minutes. That's the window of time I'd shut the forum for.
-Ibrahim