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Data Center Five Year Maintenance – May 24, 2013 – Resolved

Posted In: Uncategorized — May 24th, 2013 at 5:22 pm EST by HE: Brian S.

Incident Description:

Starting on Friday, May 24th, 2013 at 08:00PM EDT, we will be conducting maintenance on our data center power systems.  This is the second of the two maintenance periods.

The purpose of this maintenance is to replace the batteries in each of our uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and is conducted every five years.  During the maintenance, a portion of our UPS’ will be put into bypass mode and their compliment of 80 batteries will be replaced.  During this time, all servers powered by the applicable UPS’ will be running directly on generator power to prevent downtime in the unexpected case of a commercial power failure.

The maintenance is scheduled to be completed within 8 hours.

Which Customers are Impacted?

All customers

How are Customers Impacted?

n/a

How often will we be updated?

We will update when we start the maintenance, when new information is available and when the maintenance is finished

Time to Resolution (ETA)

8 hours

Incident Updates

  • 2013/05/24 8:15 PM EDT - Maintenance has begun.  ETA is currently 6-8 hours and no interruption of services is expected.

Resolution Description

The maintenance has completed successfully and all servers are back off of the UPS.

iis502 Maintenance – Hardware Migration

Posted In: Uncategorized — May 25th, 2013 at 11:56 am EST by HE: Omari J.

Incident Description:

IIS502 is currently being migrated to new hardware.

Which Customers are Impacted?

All customers on iis502 will be affected

How are Customers Impacted?

All websites, FTP, and control panel will experience slowness.

How often will we be updated?

8 hours

Time to Resolution (ETA)

12 days

Incident Updates

  • 5/25/2013 12:14 PM EDT - 76.8 GB of 451 GB have been migrated currently.

Resolution Description

N/A

web1108 shared IP:50.6.38.2 – Filtered

Posted In: Outage — May 24th, 2013 at 1:52 am EST by Antonio S

Incident Description:

We are experiencing irregular traffic on this shared IP. Our system administrators have initiated an IP filter.  We will recheck incoming traffic when the filter expires.

Which Customers are Impacted?

All clients hosting websites using this shared IP.

How are Customers Impacted?

Websites will be unavailable while IP is filtered.

How often will we be updated?

Once the current filter has expired.

Time to Resolution (ETA)

N/A

Incident Updates

  • 2013/05/24 12:51 AM EST - The IP Filter has been initiated for 4 hours.
  • 2013/05/24  5:01 AM EST - The IP Filter has been initiated for 12 hours.
  • 2013/05/24  10:41 PM EST - The IP Filter has been initiated for 12 hours.

Resolution Description

N/A

web1424 shared IP: 50.118.40.2 – Filtered

Posted In: Security Issues — May 24th, 2013 at 12:01 am EST by Antonio S

Incident Description:

We are experiencing irregular traffic on this shared IP. Our system administrators have initiated an IP filter. We will recheck incoming traffic when the filter expires.

Which Customers are Impacted?

All clients hosting websites using this shared IP.

How are Customers Impacted?

Websites will be unavailable while IP is filtered.

How often will we be updated?

Once the current filter has expired.

Time to Resolution (ETA)

N/A

Incident Updates

  • 2013/05/23  11:43 PM EST - The IP Filter has been initiated for 4 hours.

Resolution Description

N/A

Smart Host Mail Queues – Resolved

Posted In: Uncategorized — May 20th, 2013 at 3:17 pm EST by HE: Omari J.

Incident Description:

The mail queues, on the smart host servers, have backed up and are currently being worked on to continue the flow of mail normally.

Which Customers are Impacted?

All customers will be affected when sending mail.

How are Customers Impacted?

Mail may be not be delivered instantaneously

How often will we be updated?

3 hours

Time to Resolution (ETA)

4-6 hours

Incident Updates

N/A

Resolution Description

The SMH queues have been cleared and mail should be functioning correctly now.

Web1436 shared IP: 76.162.106.2 – Filtered – Resolved

Posted In: Security Issues — May 19th, 2013 at 4:24 am EST by Kris G

Incident Description:

We are experiencing irregular traffic on this shared IP. Our system administrators have initiated an IP filter. We will recheck incoming traffic when the filter expires.

Which Customers are Impacted?

clients hosting websites using this shared IP.

How are Customers Impacted?

Websites will be unavailable while IP is filtered.

How often will we be updated?

When the current filter expires.

Time to Resolution (ETA)

N/A

Incident Updates

  • 2013/05/19 03:59 AM EDT - The IP filter has been initiated for 4 hours

Resolution Description

The current filter has expired and traffic seems to be back to normal.

web1432 shared IP: 76.162.83.2 – Filtered

Posted In: Outage — May 18th, 2013 at 11:35 pm EST by Kris G

Incident Description:

We are experiencing irregular traffic on this shared IP. Our system administrators have initiated an IP filter. We will recheck incoming traffic when the filter expires.

Which Customers are Impacted?

clients hosting websites using this shared IP.

How are Customers Impacted?

Websites will be unavailable while IP is filtered.

How often will we be updated?

When the current filter expires.

Time to Resolution (ETA)

N/A

Incident Updates

  • 2013/05/18 11:04 PM EDT - The IP filter has been initiated for 4 hours
  • 2013/05/19 03:59 AM EDT - The IP filter has been initiated for 12 hours
  • 2013/05/24 12:35  AM EDT - The IP filter has been initiated for 12 hours

Resolution Description

N/A

mail511 Down for maintenance – FSCK – Resolved

Posted In: Uncategorized — May 17th, 2013 at 11:54 pm EST by HE: Omari J.

Incident Description:

Mail511 has gone down due to a forced file systems check (FSCK).

Which Customers are Impacted?

All customers on mail511

How are Customers Impacted?

Email will not be available

How often will we be updated?

3 hours

Time to Resolution (ETA)

2-3 hours

Incident Updates

5/18/2013 1:28 AM EST - The FSCK is currently at 84% completed. The ETA is currently 1 hour.

Resolution Description

Server is back online.

Data Center Five Year Maintenance – May 17, 2013 – Resolved

Posted In: Uncategorized — May 16th, 2013 at 10:25 am EST by HE: Brian S.

Incident Description:

Starting on Friday, May 17th, 2013 at 08:00PM EDT, we will be conducting maintenance on our data center power systems.  This will be the first of two maintenance periods, with the second one starting on May 24th at the same time.

The purpose of this maintenance is to replace the batteries in each of our uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and is conducted every five years.  During the maintenance, a portion of our UPS’ will be put into bypass mode and their compliment of 80 batteries will be replaced.  During this time, all servers powered by the applicable UPS’ will be running directly on generator power to prevent downtime in the unexpected case of a commercial power failure.

The maintenance is scheduled to be completed within 8 hours.

There is no expected downtime or customer impact for either of these maintenance windows.

Which Customers are Impacted?

All customers

How are Customers Impacted?

n/a

How often will we be updated?

We will update when we start the maintenance, when new information is available and when the maintenance is finished.

Time to Resolution (ETA)

6-8 hours

Incident Updates

  • 5/17/2013 8:47 PM EST - The data center maintenance has started and another update will be posted when available.

Resolution Description

The maintenance has completed successfully and all servers are back off of the UPS.

Data Center Maintenance – May 16, 2013 at 07:00AM EDT – Resolved

Posted In: Maintenance — May 16th, 2013 at 6:10 am EST by HE: Luna F.

Incident Description:

We will be performing system maintenance on Thursday, May 16th at 7:00AM EDT. Maintenance is expected to last two hours. During this maintenance period, we will be rerouting power to our servers and Storage Area Networks (SAN) to verify that the servers and SAN are properly connected to both of our backup power supplies.

There is no expected downtime or impact to customers during this maintenance window.

Which Customers are Impacted?

All customers

How are Customers Impacted?

None

How often will we be updated?

We will update when we start the maintenance, when new information is available and when the maintenance is finished.

Time to Resolution (ETA)

2 hours

Incident Updates

  • 2013/05/16 7:26 AM EDT - Maintenance has begun.  ETR is still 2 hours and no interruption of services is expected.
  • 2013/05/16 8:28 AM EDT - Maintenance has been completed

Resolution Description

Maintenance has been completed.

 
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