Archive for December, 2008

PHP upgrades on our web cluster

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

We have just finished upgrading PHP on our webcluster. PHP4 has been upgraded to version 4.4.9 and PHP5 has been upgraded to version 5.2.8. These newer versions contain bug and security fixes.  -William and the SOC.

2008 Sonic.net Holiday Party

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Sonic.net will be closed from 1:00pm until 6:00pm PST on Friday the 12th of December for our year-end staff party. If you should need assistance, please email support@sonic.net or leave a voicemail for Technical Support at 707-547-3400.  Technical Support will reopen at 6:00pm. Dedicated access and colo customers can always ...

Personal Data Backup Service Launch

Monday, December 8th, 2008

We officially launched our personal data backup service today. This full featured secure on-line backup services is currently available free to all residential customers with a limited 500mb quota for each of the computers setup with an account. This allows all of our users to take advantage of ...

Massive DDoS Attack

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

At approximately 9:30 PM tonight, an IP in our network was the target of a massive Distributed Denial of Service attack. We were alerted to the attack and blocked it at our edge quickly, but the size of the attack was large enough to congest some of our upstream network ...

Chico Area DSL Outage

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

An ATM port in San Francisco failed at approximately 8:30am.  This port serves all of our DSL customers hosted in Chico.  We've been working for the last 30 minutes to move all Chico customers to alternate hardware.  We expect this process to be complete in the next 10 to 15 ...