Archive for August, 2009

DHCP Server Failure

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

This morning at approximately 8 AM our Support staff became aware that one of our DHCP servers was not serving DHCP leases properly, in such a way that our monitoring systems were not able to detect the problem. Our Support team escalated the problem to the Operations staff and we ...

Updates on E-mail maintenance.

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

A couple of issues showed up this morning that were not picked up by our monitoring systems or testing after the night-op.  First, some users migrated to the new message stores were unable do use IMAP or webmail to access their e-mail.  This problem was fixed shortly after Tech Support ...

E-mail service interuption.

Friday, August 28th, 2009

For about an hour this afternoon SSL connections to our POP servers (pop.sonic.net) were unavailable; we have remedied the problem and are investigating the cause. During this time non-SSL connections to pop.sonic.net still worked, and both SSL and non-SSL connections to our IMAP cluster (imap.sonic.net) were unaffected. –Augie, Kelsey, and William.

Fusion Pricing Reductions

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

I’m happy to announce that we have reduced pricing for many of our higher speed Fusion Broadband products.  This, plus increases in speed are part of our goal to bring additional value to these exciting new products. For existing customers, price reductions will be reflected automatically on your next billing cycle. With ...

E-mail infrastructure maintenance.

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Update : E-mail maintenance finished a bit ago, just cleaning up; total observed down time around 15 minutes. -Augie This Saturday (29, August) at 12:01 AM we will be performing the first of four service impacting e-mail migrations from our existing e-mail storage infrastructure to our new (and greatly improved) ...

Sacramento ATM Maintenance

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

This Friday, August 21 at 12:01 AM we will be performing maintenance to upgrade an ATM aggregation circuit. We are doing this work to clear a capacity problem that the existing link faces during peak times. Sorry for the short notice. -Jared and Nathan Update: The migration is now complete. Downtime for ...

ATM OC12 Maintenance

Monday, August 17th, 2009

This Wednesday, August 19 at 12:01 AM we will be performing fiber maintenance on one of our OC12 circuits that aggregates DSL service in the Bay Area. We will be moving the OC12 to a new in-building cross-connect. Expected downtime is less than 5 minutes as we move the fiber ...

bolt security update

Monday, August 17th, 2009

We upgraded the kernel running on ‘bolt’ (our customer shell server) today to address a potential security issue. This required a reboot of the system. The system is backup and running smoothly. -William

Webcluster Security Changes

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

We have completed the migration to our new web hosting security configuration. The new system improves our already robust web site hosting platform with fully compartmentalized security and eliminates the need for cgiwrap configurations. For more information please see news://news.sonic.net/sonic.help.www -Kelsey and Nathan

A little bit extra

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

As mentioned in this system status message, we have re-profiled all Fusion Broadband customers to deliver a higher maximum sync speed. We have added 10% on top of the advertised maximum speed of all of our Fusion speed tiers. The idea is to over deliver a little bit ...