Fido.Net Status Updates

Author: jon

TeleHouse switch failure

Overnight we detected errors on a switch in Telehouse which provides connectivity to London-3. Following further tests today it was determined that a serious fault had developed with the hardware and engineers were despatched to investigate further. A faulty unit was identified and replaced at 21:58 this evening which will have resulted in a brief…

Fido Apps Upgrades

The planned overnight upgrade of the Fido Apps service has unfortunately taken longer than anticipated. Whilst the database upgrade should have been completed by 05:00 there were some complications with one of the back end databases (ex1) which have resulted in an overrun. Customers who are located on this server will be unable to access…

network issues

At approximately 14:00 today we experienced a problem with one of our core routers which resulted in a number of peering sessions dropping and some instability as a result. Engineers were quick to respond and dealt with the hardware issue, restoring normal resilient services by 14:20. We would like to apoligise to any customers affected…

Cluster Service: Controller Reboot

Following the failure of one of our controller nodes this evening we have had to perform emergency maintenance on a core segment of the network to reboot one of the central data switches. The switch was refusing to learn the new data node addresses causing an imbalance in the network and affecting performance on the…