Fido.Net Status Updates

Category: Planned Maintenance

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

Control Panel Maintenance

We will be performing emergency maintenance on the Fido control panel this evening between 00:30 and 03:00 During this time the CP may be unavailable for periods of time as the database is optimized and updated, as well as while patches are applied to the numerous front end and back end nodes Apologies for the…

Switch Upgrades 24th June 2012

We will be performing scheduled maintenance this Sunday morning between 00:01 and 02:00 to update the ISL (inter switch links) at Telehouse This will result in segments of the network becoming temporarily unavailable whilst the work is undertaken.   We will try to limit any outage or downtime as much as possible, but anticipate there…

LoNAP Planned Maintenance

LoNAP is one of the peering exchanges we connect to within the London MetroNet.  They have notified us of planned maintenance for Friday 8th June as follows   Friday 8th June 2012   2012-06-08 01:00 – 2012-06-08 06:00   This work will be to upgrade the 10G switch in Telehouse North, in order to increase 10G…

Emergency Maintenance

We are currently undertaking emergency maintenance on the network to reduce our reliance on the DataHop MetroNet.   Initial work has been undertaken this evening and resulted in a brief / 3 minute disconnection of our London-2 facility whilst arp cache tables were flushed.   We expect to complete the work Friday night / Saturday…

LINX Maintenance

Advanced notice that LINX will be performing maintenance between 00:00 and 06:00 on June 11th which may result in problems connecting to peers over the LINX Juniper LAN It is hoped that the outage as a result of this maintenance is kept to a minimum and from our side will be limited to a 5…

Emergency Maintenance: Cloud Clusters 2 & 6

This evening we detected a faulty power relay feeding cloud clusters 2 and 6. The fault was resulting in disconnects and unexpected reboots on both clusters. Engineers were despatched and the faulty relay replaced at approximately 23:30 during which time both clusters may have become inaccessible briefly. Apologies for any inconvenience caused by this unplanned…

Maintenance: Network Upgrades – 1st March

We will be performing reboots of our border router and associated switches in TeleHouse Thursday 1st March between 01:00 and 03:00 in order to upgrade fiber modules and available memory in each device. During this maintenance there will be a brief outage to the network and connected customers. Customers with redundant feeds and dual connections…