Viewing posts from: October, 2012

31
Oct

Mail Issue

By Dave|GeekISP

We had a minor connectivity issue with the mail server this morning from about 6:30am ET to 7:30am ET. It’s resolved now and mail is flowing normally.

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30
Oct

Hurricane Sandy Outage

By Dave|GeekISP

Our datacenter suffered a total connectivity loss as a result of damage from Hurricane Sandy. The outage began at roughly 6:50pm ET on 10/29 and lasted until 5:30pm ET on 10/30. The datacenter is serviced by multiple fiber providers, though all were out of service during this time. Once connectivity was restored at 5:30pm ET, [...]

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26
Oct

Service Interruption ~9pm ET -> 9:40pm ET

By Dave|GeekISP

GeekISP experienced a service interruption tonight lasting approximately 40 minutes. Our upstream provider suffered a connectivity loss and we’re still waiting on a report from them for more details. Update – 10/27 8:50am ET – We had a followup of this same issue from about 7:45am through 8:45am ET. The core router upstream had originally [...]

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13
Oct

PHP Upgrades In Progress

By Dave|GeekISP

Hi Folks – I’m performing some updates on our PHP setup so will most likely need to rotate our webservers out of service one at a time to get this done. Things may slow down slightly, but I’ll try to keep this as painless a procedure as possible. Getting rolling now, ~10:45am ET. Update 1pm [...]

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03
Oct

Intermittent SMTP LoadBalancer Issues

By Dave|GeekISP

Designed to increase uptime and availability, a load balancer is usually a good thing. Except when it gets in the way, as GeekISP’s SMTP load balancer has been over the past week or two. You may have noticed periodic errors when sending mail – that’s the problem. I’ve made some changes today that hopefully will [...]

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