Archive for December, 2008

PHP upgrades on our web cluster

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

We have just finished upgrading PHP on our webcluster. PHP4 has been upgraded to version 4.4.9 and PHP5 has been upgraded to version 5.2.8. These newer versions contain bug and security fixes.  -William and the SOC.

Cable lacing introduction

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

One of the arcane arts of telco is cable lacing with wax string. I’ve been given a crash course by Juston, and I managed to demonstrate on some test cables and ties that the CEO hasn’t lost his knack. Here are a couple examples of some simple cable lacing used ...

Wrapping up new network

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

New vehicle livery, at Forestville CO We started construction in Forestville today. It’s the last of our initial nineteen offices slated for build-out during this initial phase. All of the other locations are nearly done, with just a few loose ends to be tied up over the next few ...

Cutting the cord

Friday, December 19th, 2008

A recent survey confirms what ILEC investor calls and SEC filings have shown for some time. Consumers are moving away from land lines in favor of mobile phone products. Eighteen percent of homes have no land lines, and another thirteen percent have land lines but rarely if ever use them. ...

2008 Wrap Up

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Staff photo, December 2008 We are coming to the close of another exciting year. 2008 has been a really enjoyable time, and our staff get all of the credit for that. We are doing some exciting new things, making improvements to existing products, and providing support that I continually ...

2008 Sonic.net Holiday Party

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Sonic.net will be closed from 1:00pm until 6:00pm PST on Friday the 12th of December for our year-end staff party. If you should need assistance, please email support@sonic.net or leave a voicemail for Technical Support at 707-547-3400.  Technical Support will reopen at 6:00pm. Dedicated access and colo customers can always ...

Personal Data Backup Service Launch

Monday, December 8th, 2008

We officially launched our personal data backup service today. This full featured secure on-line backup services is currently available free to all residential customers with a limited 500mb quota for each of the computers setup with an account. This allows all of our users to take advantage of ...

You’ve got to have a hobby, right?

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Here’s a post that isn’t related to work. I do manage some extracurricular activities in my spare time! We harvested honey a couple months ago from all three of our hives. All three were captured swarms, including one we captured from a redwood tree earlier this year. We managed ...

Massive DDoS Attack

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

At approximately 9:30 PM tonight, an IP in our network was the target of a massive Distributed Denial of Service attack. We were alerted to the attack and blocked it at our edge quickly, but the size of the attack was large enough to congest some of our upstream network ...

The Sonic.net T-Shirt Contest

Friday, December 5th, 2008

For the past few years we have done an internal T-Shirt design contest where employees submit their artwork and the design with the most Employee votes is then made into our newest T-Shirt handed out at our annual Holiday Party. Now that we have this Blog, I thought it would be ...