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Friday, December 19th, 2008We are seeing high levels of latency and and reduced bandwidth to our services in Asia and Australia. This appears to be a major cable breakdown between Europe and Asia and the Middle East, although we are still attempting to find the exact reason.
Our Network Team are attempting to pin-point the cause for the drop [...]
Virginia data-center (PEER1) outage
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008At approximately 17:50 GMT a power outage occured at the PEER1 data-center in Virginia USA. At around 18:05 GMT power was restored and servers started to come back on-line. Unfortunately our server ORACLE failed to reboot successfully and we are awaiting an engineer to investigate.
Given the number of servers throughout the data-center affected by this [...]
Upgrades, moves, and new services
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 [...]