Fido.Net Status Updates

Category: Planned Maintenance

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

AT RISK – Backbone maintenance 03.10.2015

As part of our continuing commitment to upgrade and enhance the Fido network backbone, we will be installing 3 additional switches into the ring between Telehouse North and Telehouse West on Saturday evening.   The maintenance will involve inserting 3 new switches into the virtual chassis fabric and provisioning them in anticipation of connecting new customers in both locations over the…

AT RISK – Extended Network Maintenance 28th – 31st August 2015

Please note that we will be performing extended maintenance to replace / upgrade a number of ether switches in our London Telehouse facility over the Bank Holiday weekend and install updated firmware on existing switches. The work will involve firmware upgrades and the implementation of a “Virtual Chassis” between the switches in both Telehouse North…

POSTPONED – Router upgrades

We will be performing routine maintenance this evening to swap out line cards on one of our Juniper routers adding in additional 10 Gigabit ports   We anticipate a minimal amount of disruption during this maintenance window as we upgrade a routing engine on one of the primary edge routers to increase performance and capacity on the…

vpsh3 security update

We are in the process of applying an urgent security update to the virtualisation platform “vpsh3” Customers with VMs and/or VPS on this platform may find their nodes become unavailable briefly whilst the farm reboots between 05:40 and 06:00 We apologise for the short notice in relation to this urgent update and expect normal service…

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…