Archive for December, 2003

Web Server Logs: One of our webservers log…

Wednesday, December 31st, 2003

Wed Dec 31 11:41:14 PST 2003 -- Web Server Logs: One of our webservers log rotation broke on the 26th. This lead to some problems running web stats and the replication of logs and stats for three days. Web logs and stats should be processed correctly tonight. -Kevan, Nathan ...

Media server change postponed.

Wednesday, December 31st, 2003

Wed Dec 31 16:07:53 PST 2003 -- Media server change postponed. The switch to the new streaming media server has been postponed until Monday the 5th of January. This should be a transparent change for customers serving streaming media from their Sonic.net hosted web sites, and will not affect ...

Occidental Rooftop Network outage.

Monday, December 29th, 2003

Mon Dec 29 10:08:26 PST 2003 -- Occidental Rooftop Network outage. Around 9:45am today the Occidental-area Rooftop Wireless network went offline. We are currently investigating the cause. No ETR available at this time, but this outage only affects customers with Rooftop Wireless in the Occidental area. - Bryan and ...

Mail Server Upgrades: We’ve turned up a pair…

Friday, December 26th, 2003

Fri Dec 26 12:27:07 PST 2003 -- Mail Server Upgrades: We've turned up a pair of new mail servers this morning to handle outbound email sent to mail.sonic.net. The servers are dual Xeons with 3-Ware SATA RAID using Western Digital Raptors. These boxes are blazing fast and will increase ...

Broadlink outage in Sector 3.

Friday, December 26th, 2003

Fri Dec 26 09:13:41 PST 2003 -- Broadlink outage in Sector 3. All Broadlink Wireless connections served by the Barham Tower on Sector 3 are down this morning. Sonic.net Technical Support is coordinating with Broadlink Staff regarding this problem. There is no ETR at this time. - John and ...

Sonic is closing today at 2:30PM for the…

Wednesday, December 24th, 2003

Wed Dec 24 14:32:00 PST 2003 -- Sonic is closing today at 2:30PM for the holidays. We will be reopening Friday morning at 8:00AM. Happy holidays from all of us at Sonic.

Mail Server NFS Filer Maintenance: This…

Monday, December 22nd, 2003

Mon Dec 22 21:41:42 PST 2003 -- Mail Server NFS Filer Maintenance: This afternoon, one of the 2 pairs of clustered NFS filers that handle our message stores experienced some difficulty resulting in a cluster takeover by its partner. We don't believe that any users experienced any impact when ...

Basic Website Hosting product improved.

Saturday, December 20th, 2003

Sat Dec 20 16:24:12 PST 2003 -- Basic Website Hosting product improved. We have increased the disk storage quota for our standard hosting product to 100 megabytes, plus added 24 POP e-mail boxes to the package. This, plus the huge outbound bandwidth quota increases and inclusion of ...

DSL outage in Oakland.

Saturday, December 20th, 2003

Sat Dec 20 16:19:17 PST 2003 -- DSL outage in Oakland. SBC-ASI has informed us that they are currently experiencing an outage in a portion of Oakland which is affecting some Sonic.net customers. SBC-ASI is working now to resolve the issue. If you are in Oakland and are down, ...

Supernews maintenance outage.

Tuesday, December 16th, 2003

Tue Dec 16 09:23:11 PST 2003 -- Supernews maintenance outage. Supernews is doing maintenance on their servers this morning from 8 to 10 AM PST and as a consequence are unavailable. For more details, see: status.supernews.com/ -John