Archive for October, 2007

Server maintenance - Neptune, Atlanta 1

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

The NEPTUNE server at Atlanta 1, Georgia, will be undergoing essential maintenance tonight - The kernel and core software on this node will be upgraded and a reboot is required to load the new kernel. The scheduled time for the reboot is Thursday November 1st 3am EST.
Customers hosted on this node have also [...]

Virginia data-center power outage

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

This morning VENUS, our backup mail, monitoring and DNS server located in Virginia, USA was caught by a total power blackout at the datacenter, and was off-line for approximately 94 minutes.
Fortunately, Venus rebooted cleanly when power was restored and no customers experienced any loss of service.
We would also like to praise the data-center staff for [...]

Another hacker attack

Friday, October 19th, 2007

I seem to be writing more and more about hackers getting into sites, and just today I got this from one of our UK suppliers …
We are writing to inform you that we have recently discovered evidence of a network intrusion involving a ###### server. We have reason to believe that the intruder [...]

Network Maintenance - Atlanta 1, Global Crossing - Oct 6th, 2007

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

On 6th October, starting at 11:00 PM CST, we will be performing network maintenance for our Global Crossing upstream provider from the Atlanta 1, USA data-center, which should take around 2 hours to complete.
Internet traffic may be interrupted for about 30 minutes during this maintenance window for users who use Global Crossing in their route [...]

Continuing MPack hack attacks

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

And so it goes on …
The Register reports today that the Chinese Internet Security Response Team web site (www.cisrt.org) is the latest high-profile site to fall foul of the hackers.
Read the full story here
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