Server and System Status

NC027: Server back online

21 November 2014 04:23:48 +0000

We have completed adding additional storage to server NC027. The server was taken down at 03:13 and was back online 28 minutes later at 03:41.

However, we have decided to postpone the other upgrades until this weekend, during our weekly maintenance window starting at 19:00 UTC on Saturday, 22 November.

Thanks again for your patience and understanding.

Tags: down time, email delivery, hardware, reboot
Categories: Maintenance, NC027, Upgrades
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We will be performing emergency maintenance on server NC027 today during our daily maintenance window starting at 03:00 UTC. We are allowing a 90-minute window for this maintenance to add more RAM, bandwidth and storage, but we expect that it will take less time. We will post an update here as soon as the maintenance is complete.

If you have any questions or concerns about this, please contact NinerNet support. Thank-you.

Tags: down time, email delivery, hardware, reboot
Categories: Maintenance, NC027, Upgrades
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POODLE maintenance: Complete

23 October 2014 22:54:04 +0000

We have completed the maintenance to mitigate against exploitation of the POODLE vulnerability.

Because the effects of this maintenance could potentially be wide-ranging, please contact support if you have any issues with connecting over a secure connection to any of our servers. We don’t believe there will be any issues with web (HTTPS) connections, but there may be with some email (SMTP, IMAP and POP) connections by older email programs. That said, an exploit against this vulnerability has only been demonstrated using JavaScript and a web browser, so email connections (even if using SSLv3) are not generally considered to be at risk.

Thanks for your patience during this maintenance.

UPDATE, 2014-10-24: Please read some details on this maintenance, and learn more about SSL and TLS and email security, on our corporate blog.

Tags: ssl, web server
Categories: Maintenance, NC018, NC020, NC023, NC026, NC027
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POODLE maintenance: Update 1

19 October 2014 00:33:28 +0000

The maintenance described in our last post is under way, but we are running into some issues that are delaying completion. While there may be sudden and unexpected interruptions in some services for some clients, we are aware of them and are working on them. If necessary, we will revert to old configurations while we re-evaluate the new configurations recommended to defend clients against the POODLE vulnerability.

Thank-you for your patience.

Tags: ssl, web server
Categories: Maintenance, NC018, NC020, NC023, NC026, NC027
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SSL version 3 “POODLE” vulnerability, system-wide maintenance

17 October 2014 05:25:59 +0000

We will be conducting maintenance this weekend to address the above noted vulnerability. Please read more details about this on our corporate blog.

Tags: ssl, web server
Categories: Maintenance, NC018, NC020, NC023, NC026, NC027
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NC026 emergency maintenance complete

2 October 2014 12:14:12 +0000

The emergency maintenance on server NC026 described earlier has been completed successfully. Thank-you for your patience.

Tags: down time, hardware, reboot, web server
Categories: Maintenance, NC026
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NC026 emergency maintenance

1 October 2014 04:40:48 +0000

To deal with an as-yet unpublished security vulnerability, server NC026 will undergo emergency maintenance today (1 October) starting shortly after 15:00 UTC. Down time should be brief, but will be noticeable for websites hosted on this server during the maintenance. Most of the websites hosted on this server are newer ones using more recent versions of WordPress. If you are not sure whether or not your website is hosted on this server, you can contact support to find out.

No email is hosted on NC026, so this maintenance will not affect email flow at all.

Tags: down time, hardware, reboot, web server
Categories: Maintenance, NC026
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NinerNet SSL certificate fully installed

21 July 2014 12:10:11 +0000

We have solved the issue with the new NinerNet SSL certificate not fully propagating to all servers. All SSL web and email connections should now be using the new SSL certificate, which expires in 2015.

If you are having any issues, please restart your computer to ensure that all software on the computer uses the new SSL certificate. If you still have problems, please contact NinerNet support with a full description of the error message you are seeing.

Thank-you for your patience.

Tags: connection issues, ssl, ssl certificate
Categories: Maintenance, NC018, NC020, NC023, NC026, NC027
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NinerNet SSL certificate

21 July 2014 07:41:35 +0000

We are aware that the new NinerNet SSL certificate has not properly propagated to all servers. We are working to fix this and will post an update here as soon as we believe the issue has been resolved.

In the meantime it is usually possible to override any warnings and continue with whatever you are doing.

Tags: connection issues, ssl, ssl certificate
Categories: Maintenance, NC018, NC020, NC023, NC026, NC027
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NC027: Maintenance complete

15 March 2014 19:53:18 +0000

Server NC027 was brought back online at 19:43 UTC. This maintenance has been completed successfully.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact NinerNet support. Thanks very much for your patience while we upgraded the resources on this server.

Tags: down time, email delivery
Categories: Maintenance, NC027
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System	Status	Ping
NC023	Internal	Up?
NC028	Internal	Up?
NC031	Internal	Up?
NC033	Operational	Up?
NC034	Internal	Up?
NC035	Operational	Up?
NC036	Operational	Up?
NC040	Internal	Up?
NC041	Operational	Up?
NC042	Operational	Up?