Fido.Net Status Updates

Category: Planned Maintenance

Planned changes and maintenance. Things we intend to do going forwards. Plans and road map

Router Upgrades

During the maintenance window on Friday 11th August we will also take the opportunity to upgrade one of our core routers. This may result in brief pause in routing as new mac addresses are learned. Coupled with the upgrade and reboot of switches this should keep any physical outage / down time to a minimum.

HSPc 3.2 Upgrade

We are planning to upgrade the control panel from version 3.1 to version 3.2 It is anticipated this will happen at the end of October, just as soon as the upgrade scripts have been tested. There are about 200 new features and improvements in the control panel software, and we are very excited about this…

Name Server Upgrades

Over the coming months we intend to retire the existing ns0.fido.net, ns1.fido.net and ns2.fido.net name servers. They will be replaced with a backup NS service specifically for customers who do not wish us to host the primary versions of their DNS via our HSPc based management control panel. It is anticipated that this will be…