Fido.Net Status Updates

Category: Planned Maintenance

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

Network Maintenance Feb 4th

MAINTENANCE NOTIFICATION Window Commences: 2010-02-04 00:00:00 GMT (UTC + 0) Window Concludes: 2010-02-04 05:00:00 GMT (UTC + 0) Reason for notification Firmware upgrade on backbone switches ———————— In order to rectify an issue with the current version of code on switches operating the data ring between sites, our engineers will need to perform a software…

ALL CLEAR: Upgrades completed

Following on from tonights maintenance and upgrades, engineers have now left site and confirm all services operating efficiently. The faulty router hardware was replaced and additional memory installed to boost performance. Works were initially completed by 3am however after detecting a further potential performance issue it was decided to extend the maintenance window and install…

relay-1 rebooting

relay-1 has been exhibiting some strange behaviour this morning, which appears to be a mixture of a memory leak, a large nigerian spam and someone attempting to break through security barriers on the machine. As a precaution and as we needed to reboot to clear the memory leak anyway, we have upgraded the kernel and…

Web Server IP Address Change

The following has been sent to affected customers following the failure of one of our dedicated virtual servers. If your web site is no longer responding and you manage your own DNS then most likely it is as a result of this emergency maintenance:

Following on from our recent notification of upgrades, which were originally scheduled for this weekend, it became necessary to migrate your web hosting to the new server ahead of schedule overnight.