Fido.Net Status Updates

Author: jon

xDSL Network issues

We are aware of an issue currently affecting our xDSL customer base, manifesting itself as poor performance. Our Systems team are currently investigating. Further information will be provided as and when it becomes available. Update: 17:50 –  We believe the issues have now been resolved.  We are actively pressing our suppliers for an update and…

vpsh3 failure and emergency maintenance

At approximately 09:20 this morning vpsh3 (one of our virtualisation services) experienced a failure exhibited by a host node kernel panic. The fault was quickly identified by monitoring and the virtualisation server was restarted by engineers. Normal service was restored shortly after 09:50 this morning. We are investigating the fault in more detail and attempting…

Lon-2 switch maintenance (l2-r2-sw1)

As part of our ongoing policy of preventative maintenance we need to perform a reboot of switch l2-r2-sw1 which is located in our London 2 facility to clear a stuck CAM table and resolve other minor technical issues. We plan to perform the reload between 00:01 and 00:30 Sunday morning, and during this time any…

fido.net legacy server failure

The web server hosting the fido.net website (Broadband checker, Fido Support Suite and Speedtest.net) has experienced a hardware failure overnight   We are working to restore service as quickly as possible Customers wishing to access the legacy fido.net control panel can do so at https://my.fido.net/cp/ fidonet.com is not affected by this failure Whilst the old…

Routine Maintenance

We will be performing routine maintenance on a number of web servers this evening between 2am and 6am applying security updates and rebooting to load new kernels.   During this time customers may find access to their sites is affected briefly   Routine maintenance windows are Wed and Fri 2am to 6am during which time…

vpsh6 failure

One of our virtualisation clusters – vpsh6 – has just experienced an unexpected reset We are investigating currently and anticipate service to be restored within the next 20 minutes   UPDATE: Service is being restored 09:35 UPDATE2: Service has now been restored 09:43   We are aware that while vpsh6 was offline our office phones…