Notification Type
Scheduled Maintenance
Date
March 18, 2009 10:00 PM
Service Affecting
Yes
Message
When: 22:00 on Wed March 18th until 23:59 on Wed March 18th.Summary: Our cp.blacknight.com infrastructure currently runs on 10/100 switches with GigE uplinks to our core network. Two such racks are going to have new Cisco 3560G-48 switches put in to replace the existing switches. The newer racks already have GigE switches in them so those will be unaffected.
Outage Notification:
The following services will be affected during this upgrade:
Qmail hosting / Webmail
Windows shared hosting
Linux shared hosting
cp.blacknight.com
Windows VPS Servers (pemvzwin04/05 are unaffected)
Linux VPS servers (pemvzlin06/07 are unaffected)
ns1/ns2.blacknight.com (staged change over, ns1 first then ns2)
None of the services should be affected for more than 30 seconds at a time, as the new network infrastructure will be in place before the move is done so it's just a matter of re-patching the equipment.
As usual if you have any queries please contact our support team.
Update: March 18 20:20
Just a reminder about this maintenance window. All our planning and work behind the scenes means it'll go ahead as scheduled.
Update: March 18 11:20
This work is pretty much completed.We had a few hiccups with 1 or 2 new cables not pushing home correctly. Everything should be back now, thanks for your patience.
"None of the services should be affected for more than 30 seconds at a time"
You sure about that? It's been down for 15 minutes now.