Archive for August, 2008

New email Member Tools released today

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

We deployed the email portion of our New Member Tool suite this morning. Significant improvements have been made, particularly in the following tools: Graymail now features improved searching, sorting, and best of all, we've FINALLY added a message preview feature! Check it out at https://members.sonic.net/email/graymail. Our Spam Filtering Configuration tools have ...

Web cluster outage

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

At 12:55PM this afternoon, we experienced an outage of our main web cluster. Customer downtime was under 5 minutes. All services have been restored. --Don Update: Upon investigation, we have taken steps to increase the robustness of this cluster to ensure this particular problem does not occur again. We apologize for ...

BroadLink wireless outage

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

BroadLink is a wireless carrier partner for a group of customers in Santa Rosa and some surrounding areas.  BroadLink has had a failure of a critical component in the core of their network, and they are currently attempting repair. We have scheduled a meeting for an hour and a half from ...

New features added to our DNS Editor tool.

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

We have added the ability for our customers to edit their Reverse DNS in our DNS Editor Member Tool: https://members.sonic.net/websites/nameservers/host_records This tool works for anyone with IP Address services with us; be it Colocation, Leased Server, DSL, or anything else with an IP address tied to it; you can now use this ...

Sonic.net Backup Service

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Sonic.net would like to invite you to try out our new online backup service. Our online backup service is available for OS X and Windows 2K or greater. It comes with a 50GB quota to backup all of your important documents and pictures. For helping us test this new service you ...

Massive DDoS Attack

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Approx 30 mins ago a Distributed Denial of Service attack was aimed at one of our colo customers. The NOC quickly identified and blocked the DDoS, but the attack ramped up to over 700 Mbps for several minutes. This traffic congested one of our transit links for 5-10 minutes, possibly ...

DSL Subscriber Rebalancing

Monday, August 11th, 2008

On Wednesday August 13 at 12:01 AM we will be moving several hundred DSL subscribers from one of our DSL aggregation routers to another, to balance network load. This move should take less than 5 minutes and will only cause a brief service interruption. -Jared Update: The migration has been completed. Downtime ...

Sonic.net IMAP Upgraded

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Sonic.net System Operations has upgraded our IMAP server software to a version we've had in testing. Besides a noticeable speed improvement over the previous version, we have made message Tagging and client message status available! --Don, Kelsey and the SOC.

Inbound DDoS

Friday, August 1st, 2008

We recently experienced an inbound DDoS attack that was directed at one of our customers. The attack was promptly blocked at our edge and any connectivity issues related to it should be resolved. Customers may have experienced slightly degraded performance during this time. -Dusty, Nathan, and Jared