The emergency maintenance on server NC027 has started. All services on this server will be unavailable for the duration of the work.
We will post progress updates here. Thank-you for your patience.
The emergency maintenance on server NC027 has started. All services on this server will be unavailable for the duration of the work.
We will post progress updates here. Thank-you for your patience.
We have scheduled emergency maintenance this week for two of our servers to address a yet-to-be-published security vulnerability in the underlying virtualisation software these servers use.
The schedule is as follows:
Please click on the dates and times to convert the time of the maintenance into your local time zone. Server NC023 is commonly referred to by those that use it as the “relay server”, and server NC027 is our primary mail server.
The maintenance window will be approximately two hours long, but often ends up being much shorter. During the maintenance window the servers and everything hosted on them will be inaccessible. Any incoming mail for domains hosted on the mail server will be queued on the sending mail servers until our mail server is back online; email will be delayed during this time, but not lost. You will be unable to send email or access the webmail during the maintenance window. No websites will be affected.
While we are aware that this maintenance is scheduled during part of the work day for some of our clients, we are unable to change that due to the demands of this effort. We sincerely apologise for that.
We will post updates here and in alerts on our website before, during and after the maintenance.
We appreciate your patience with our efforts to keep our infrastructure and yours secure. If you have any questions, please let us know. Thank-you.
After spending some time on this issue yesterday and today — and receiving a complaint from only one client who later informed us that the issue no longer existed — we’re closing this matter and considering it a transient network issue, probably closer to the client’s ISP than to server NC027.
Apologies for the false alarm, but we do take your complaints seriously.
If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know by contacting NinerNet support. Thank-you.
We are aware of an issue with server NC027, where most client email is hosted. However, we have not yet determined exactly what the problem is. Some services on the server are accessible, while some are not.
We are currently working with the data centre to determine the issue, and will post further updates here.
Further to our previous posts, we will be processing credits to the accounts of all affected clients for the outage on NC020.
After some research, combing of the logs on the server, and reading of documentation, we believe we found a reason that the web server stopped working, but we believe the cause evaporated when, in our desire to get everything working again as quickly as possible, we just rebooted the machine after other options to restart the web server failed. However, even the suspected cause does not fully jibe with the observed symptoms.
The good news is that we have recently commissioned a new server (NC030) to take on the websites hosted on NC020. We are still working on setting up the control panel on that, but we hope to have it in production as soon as possible.
We apologise for this incident, and thank you for your patience and understanding.
The web server on NC020 was found to be unresponsive today, but would also not respond to commands to restart. As a result we rebooted the machine and this seems to have fixed the problem.
We’re busy analysing the logs to determine the cause, and will post an update here if we find anything.
Unless you have been advised otherwise, all domains with mixed-case user names have now been migrated to server NC027.
Again, using Bob@example.com as an example:
Passwords have remained the same.
Please also remember to update your email program’s configuration per the instructions at docs.niner.net/email.
The mail migration is, for the most part, finally complete. As mentioned in our previous post, you will know that your domain has been migrated if you can no longer access email accounts on the old server. If that is the case, please start using the settings for the new server.
The only domains left to migrate are those that have user names with mixed- or upper-case letters, and domains that are changing — i.e., where an old primary domain is being replaced by what was once a secondary domain. We will take the opportunity to migrate the remaining domains outside of the business hours of the clients affected, which differ according to the time zones in which they are located, over the next two days.
There are a few additional notes to be aware of or to emphasise, in addition to those contained in Email migration: Update 1:
In addition to that last specific issue, please check over your accounts yourself to ensure that all is set up and working as it should be. If you need assistance with anything that you cannot address yourself through the control panel, please contact support and we will be happy to help you.
Thank-you again for your patience during this migration, and our apologies again for the fact that it took longer than we had planned.
Due to the many gigabytes of email saved on server NC018, the migration is still ongoing.
We are disabling domains on server NC018 as they are migrated to server NC027. What this means to you is that, if you find that you can no longer access your email account, it has probably been transferred and you should start using the settings for server NC027. Please see the “Things you need to do” heading in the Email migration: Update 1 post for that information.
Thanks for your patience.
Systems at a Glance:
Loc. | System | Status | Ping |
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![]() | 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? |
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