Fido.Net Status Updates

Category: CoLocation Centres

Status and notices re our Data Centres

Emergency Maintenance 5-7th June

Following on from the failure of IP House operated by iRack Networks Ltd  (and previously also Media City in Salford Manchester) we have been forced to take emergency action to secure customer servers and all customer data housed within the IP House London facility. Steps have been taken to migrate all customer data and servers securely…

LINX Extreme LAN Broadcast Storms

During scheduled maintenance on the LINX Extreme LAN, there appears to have been an issue which resulted in a high volume of broadcast traffic affecting numerous LINX members.   The broadcast traffic resulted in sessions dropping ungracefully and caused connections to other peering LANs to also fluctuate.   LINX are investigating this issue currently, in…

LINX Juniper LAN Broadcast Storms

The LINX (London Internet Exchange) Juniper peering LAN is currently experiencing high volumes of broadcast traffic.   As a precaution, we have disabled connections to the LINX Juniper LAN in order to restore stability We are awaiting an update from LINX as to the cause of the broadcasts and their plans to resolve the situation

AT RISK: Bank Holiday Maintenance 23-25th May 2015

We are planning a full range of works over the Bank Holiday weekend which will result in upgraded capacity and improved network performance.   During the maintenance window a number of segments of the network will be upgraded which may result in brief periods where services should be considered “At Risk” when redundant paths are…

Emergency Maintenance May 1st-3rd

Following on from yesterday’s DDoS attack on one of our clients, we have been working to further minimise the impact of any further attacks   During this mitigation process we identified an optimisation which could be quickly applied to the network and it was decided to implement this earlier this evening   Unfortunately this caused…

At Risk – Emergency Maintenance THN

Due to circumstances outside of our control this maintenance could not be completed as scheduled.  Due to the urgent nature of this maintenance we will be undertaking the work Saturday evening instead and will attempt to keep any disruption to an absolute minimum.   Maintenance Window – 23:00 – 1st August – 04:00 -2nd August 2014…