Archive for November, 2008

Emergency Router Maintenance

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

One of the interface cards in a customer-serving router in Santa Rosa has suffered a software glitch this afternoon. We will be performing invasive maintenance on the affected card tonight at midnight. All T1 customers served by this card will be down for 5-10 minutes during this maintenance. There is ...

Mail Service Interuption

Friday, November 21st, 2008

One of four NFS filers that supports our backend mail spool storage suffered from a broken FCAL loop and went off-line at 23:24. While the other three remained in service the mail cluster doesn't take kindly to this situation and users may have noticed delays, timeouts or other errors while ...

Broadlink WDSL Outage

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Broadlink Wireless DSL customers served off one of their main towers in the Santa Rosa area are currently offline, due to a power failure in the area. Broadlink is en route to the tower site with generators, and we expect service to be restored shortly.

MySQL5 support added.

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Our Database Member-Tool now offers you the choice between MySQL4, MySQL5 or PostgreSQL. We encourage you to try it out and even try migrating your data from your MySQL4 instance to MySQL5 as this will enable all the features and performance increases in MySQL5 as well as landing you on a ...

Datacenter was on diesel

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Our Santa Rosa datacenter facility is currently running on our backup generator due to problems with the automatic power transfer system. While we do not anticipate this will cause any impact for customers, it's certainly a failure of a sort. Normally, the transfer switch starts the generator during ...