Archive for July, 2010
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Our team will be taking time off to celebrate a great year and our company 16th birthday, so technical support will be closed from 11am to 6pm this Saturday the 31st. Support will be open from 6pm to 10pm and Sunday as usual. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Our normal 24x7x365 schedule is ...
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
This evening, beginning at 10PM, we will be performing non-intrusive power maintenance on equipment at 200 Paul Avenue in San Francisco. We will be moving power sources between redundant loads and do not expect the work to have any impact on customer traffic.
-Tim, Nathan, Jared, and Matt
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Sweets from Sift for Sonic.net
Yesterday we celebrated Sonic.net’s sixteenth birthday. Founded in 1994 as “Sonoma Interconnect”, the company has seen a lot of change.
From a eight dialup lines connected to a couple Linux boxes, to a network spanning the state. From a few early adopter customers, to over fifty thousand ...
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
This evening, Tuesday July 20th at 11PM we will be replacing the failed blade in our core switch. There should be no effect aside from a brief hit in accessibility to news.sonic.net. Any impact should be less than 10 minutes.
-Jared
Update: The card replacement was completed shortly after 11PM, and the ...
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
10:28 news.sonic.net is back on-line — we apologize for the inconvenience.
The Sonic.net News cluster (news.sonic.net) suffered a hardware problem and is currently being repaired; we will update you as changes occur.
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Python has been upgraded to version 2.6 on our webcluster and shell server.
Access the new version by calling python2.6 instead of python.
MySQLdb has also been installed along with this upgrade.
-William
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
At 12:55pm today it was brought to our attention customers on our network were experiencing intermittent reachability to parts of the internet. We determined the source of this to be a routing issue with one of our upstream providers. At approximately 1:08 we routed traffic away from the affected upstream, ...
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Update: Our web cluster was the target of a large DDoS; the targeted host has been isolated and the cluster has been stabilized.
We are currently experiencing issues with our web server cluster. We are investigating the problem and will provide an update shortly.
-Tim, Nathan, and William
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
As part of our next-generation Fiber to the Home (FTTH) efforts, Sonic.net has been working on various fiber installation methods in an attempt to drive down costs and increase the speed at which fiber deployment can be completed. Micro-trenching is anticipated to be a part of this in areas where ...
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
This evening, Thursday July 15, at 12:01AM, we will be migrating all DSL subscribers in the Sacramento area to a new OC-12 circuit. Affected customers may experience up to 10 minutes of downtime while the migration is performed.
-Tim, Jared, and Nathan
Update: This migration has been completed and all affected customers ...
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