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Thursday, September 25th, 2008Please don’t think that because I haven’t written anything for a month that there hasn’t been anything worth writing about. Far from it! We’ve been a tad busy here at Netnibble and it’s been more important to get all the forward planning and work done (details below) than detail it here (until now). So, without [...]
California earthquake
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Yesterday morning a 5.8 magnitude earthquake occurred 29 miles outside of Los Angeles, near Chino Hills, California. We are pleased to advise customers of the 2 facilities we use in Los Angeles that these data-centers were unaffected and continue to operate normally.
More details of the earthquake can been found HERE
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Scheduled maintenance, Ariel, Hong Kong
Thursday, July 17th, 2008We are planning to conduct scheduled maintenance on our Hong Kong server, Ariel, during the following window:
Date: 19 July 2008
Local Time: 1am - 2am (GMT+8)
Maintenance: This window is a follow-up check of a previous maintenance. The node may be down for up to 30 minutes and will allow us to provide a better [...]
Pandora off-line for a short while
Monday, July 14th, 2008Our server Pandora in Pennsylvania is currently offline for an operating system re-install (version change). No customers are affected by this and the server will be back up shortly.
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DDoS attack, EasyNet Holland
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008One of our European servers, SATURN, is currently unreachable or responding very slowly due to a DDoS attack aimed at EasyNet. The data-center techs are doing everything possible to mitigate the attack and re-route traffic. At one point they were managing to return traffic to near-normal levels. However, the attack then changed so additional measures [...]
Upgrades, more upgrades, and yet more upgrades!
Monday, March 24th, 2008If you’re a regular visitor to The Netnibble Blog, you’ll already have noticed that the site design has changed. This is part of the roll-out of our new Version 3 Netnibble site format - We hope that you like the changes!
The aim is to make all Netnibble web sites worldwide have an identical look and [...]
Datacenter Maintenance - New Jersey, USA
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Starting tomorrow, and over the weekend, some maintenance work is being conducted at the New Jersey West Data Center (Fortress ITX). This will impact our CRESSIDA server only.
The necessary work involves upgrading equipment and routers while implementing major adjustments on distribution switches, core/edge routers and Layer2 connectivity.
Three maintenance windows have been nominated for this [...]
Network outage - GNAX data-center, Atlanta, USA
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008At 09:41 GMT this morning, our monitoring reported a total loss of connectivity to the GNAX data-center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Network technicians started investigations immediately. At 10:14 GMT we posted a bulletin to our back-up blog (http://backup.netnibble.net) to alert customers of the issue.
At 11:36 GMT the back-ups for our customers’ web-sites on the Omega [...]
Network Issue - Atlanta 1 USA and Atlanta 2 USA
Friday, December 28th, 2007We are getting reports that some users are unable to reach our servers in Atlanta USA. This issue appears to be isolated to those routing through the pccwbtn network. Our network engineers are looking into this and are working with the Admins of the upstream provider to get this resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience [...]
DNS Upgrade
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Between 12th and 31st December 2008, Netnibble will be performing a major upgrade and enhancement program to our current DNS network.
DNS is a much under-discussed subject, but is actually an essential background mechanism to the way that the Internet works. Having multiple name-servers in geographically distant locations improves domain name look-up times, reduces load on [...]