Month: August 2013

Customer Service Phone Interruption

Starting at 2:54pm today, inbound calls to our customer service phone lines in Santa Rosa (serving our sales, billing, and technical support representatives) lost connectivity. We are currently working to resolve this issue. We have no ETR. Please note that in this specific outage, our Callback Assist system continued to make outbound connections. Customer voice and data connections to everywhere else should be unaffected. — John and Adam

Update: service was restored moments after this status message was posted. Agents are standing by ready to assist again. — John

Backbone Maintenance

Tonight, beginning at 11:59 PM, I will be performing further maintenance and upgrades on backbone equipment in the San Jose and Palo Alto areas for our telecom network. I do not expect any downtime as a result of this operation.

– Robbie

Backbone Maintenance

Tonight, beginning at 11:59, I will be performing maintenance and upgrades on backbone equipment in the San Jose and Palo Alto areas for our telecom network. I do not expect any downtime as a result of this operation.

– Robbie

Update: This maintenance is now complete.

Fusion/Flexlink Maintenance in Albany

Tonight, beginning at 11:59, we will be performing maintenance on equipment serving Fusion/Flexlink customers in the Albany area. We do not expect any customer downtime for this operation.

– Robbie and Tim

Fiber DIA Intrusive Maintenance

On Friday, 8/30/2013, between the hours of midnight and 6AM, the telco will be performing intrusive maintenance on equipment serving some Fiber DIA customers in Northern California. Actual down time is expected to be less than three hours for affected customers.

-Tim

Update: The planned maintenance work was not performed last night due to unforeseen circumstances. A new date will be provided once the work has been rescheduled.

Fusion Outage – Albany

A issue with one of our DSLAMs in Albany had caused a subset of our customers in the area to go offline. We believe the issue to be resolved at this point.

– Robbie

Database Server Upgrade

*Update* All work is complete – customer databases should now be back up and functional.

This Thursday, Aug 22, from 12am to 1am, System Operations will be performing a memory upgrade to the customer SQL server. During the maintenance window, customer databases will not be reachable.

— Joe & the SOC

Customer MySQL Database Servers Maintenance

Tonight at Midnight, our customer database server will be taken off-line to replace two failed disks as well as repair some suspected bad cabling on the raid controller.  While the server is off-line any hosting accounts requiring database access will be off-line as well.  It is expected to take less that 30 minutes to complete the replacement and repair and have the system back in on-line and in service.

Services were restored on time just before 00:30.

-Kelsey

Support Closed Sunday

Our team will be taking time off this coming Sunday to celebrate Sonic.net’s 19th birthday.  Customer Support will be closed on 8/11/2013 from 11am to 6pm.  Support will re-open at 6pm on Sunday and remain available until 10pm.

Our normal 24x7x365 schedule is still applicable for our on-call network operations team for dedicated business and colocated customers.

-Adam and Support