Archive for September, 2006

Followup
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Looks like the dreaded summer of network glitches coming to an end:
It’s been a few days since our last change to our network and things are still looking very good. There are some isolated (and seemingly unrelated) issues we are dealing with, but the major network issue does appear to be resolved at this time.
This [...]

Router Maintenance Complete
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Things are up again and running like never before:
We are confident that all the minor issues following the router hardware swap this evening are now resolved. If you are having any issues with your site or email please contact our Tech Support team.
While initial performance looks promising we’ll need another 12-24hours before we will have [...]

Monday Downtime, not Sunday (rectifying)
Saturday, September 9th, 2006

Oops, downtime will be on Monday night:
We’re rescheduling the network maintenance previously scheduled for 8pm PDT Sunday night (Sep. 10) to 10pm PDT Monday the 11th so that we can perform a more thorough upgrade. We will be taking the network down for some fairly invasive central network upgrades, so most everything will be down [...]

Network downtime Sunday night
Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Hope you’re gonna sleep during those minutes, ain’t ya?
At 8pm PDT Sunday night (Sep. 10) we will be taking the network down for some fairly invasive central network upgrades. We don’t expect downtime to exceed 20 minutes, but during this time everything (web, ftp, email, panel) will be unavailable.

Joomla CMS 1.0.11 Upgrades
Thursday, September 7th, 2006

For all of you running a Joomla CMS website with us: just upgraded the engine to the latest 1.0.11 security release. Some thrid party extensions may (just may) not work properly under the new tights…
If noticing something, give me a line.
Thanks,
Georg

Slow mail traffic, and sometimes web
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

If you’re noticing late mails and slow sites, here’s the reason why:
One of our network storage servers, aka filer, went down this morning. The admins are working on getting it working again. This is only affecting a very small percentage of our customers (we have a multitude of filers in service), and it means that [...]