Server and System Status

NC027: Hardware issue

8 December 2014 19:35:33 +0000

We received a report from the data centre that there was a hardware issue on this server this afternoon (UTC) that necessitated a reboot at 14:24 UTC. We are awaiting more details and will report them here as soon as we know more.

Tags: connection issues, down time, email delivery, hardware, reboot, smtp
Categories: Email, Incidents, NC027
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NC027: Upgrade complete

22 November 2014 20:15:20 +0000

The maintenance on server NC027 to increase the RAM, increase bandwidth capacity and move to solid-state drives has been completed. It took far less time than we expected, which is a good thing of course. The server was taken offline at 19:20 and was back online at 19:41 UTC.

Systems have been checked and everything appears to be operating normally. If you have any questions about this upgrade, please contact NinerNet support to let us know and we will be happy to answer your questions. Thanks very much for your patience and understanding.

Tags: down time, email delivery, hardware, reboot, smtp
Categories: Email, Maintenance, NC027, Upgrades
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NC027: Upgrade underway

22 November 2014 19:39:32 +0000

The upgrades to server NC027 are currently underway. They started at 19:20 UTC, which was 20 minutes later than planned. We apologise for the delay in starting, but we still expect to be done within the 90 minute window.

Tags: down time, email delivery, hardware, reboot, smtp
Categories: Email, Maintenance, NC027, Upgrades
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NC027: Weekend maintenance reminder

22 November 2014 04:12:32 +0000

This is a reminder that we will be performing upgrades on server NC027 during our maintenance window this weekend. This maintenance will start at 19:00 UTC on Saturday, 22 November, and will take approximately 90 minutes.

During that time NC027 will be offline. No websites are hosted on this server, but this will affect all email accounts on this server. Your email is hosted on this server if you do not have web hosting with NinerNet, or you have a WordPress website hosted with us.

Incoming email will be stored on the sending mail servers while NC027 is down; it will not bounce, and email will not be lost.

If you have any questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact NinerNet support and we’ll be happy to help you.

Tags: down time, email delivery, hardware, reboot, smtp
Categories: Email, Maintenance, NC027, Upgrades
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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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NC027: Emergency maintenance

21 November 2014 01:30:13 +0000

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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NC020: Web server restarted

10 November 2014 13:24:48 +0000

The web server on NC020 was down between approximately 11:21 and 12:33 UTC today. We are investigating and will post a report here later today.

Tags: down time, web server
Categories: Incidents, NC020
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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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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?