Server and System Status

NC027: Server upgrade postponed

23 July 2016 23:17:27 +0000

Due to the possibility of significant delays, we are postponing the upgrade of NC027 scheduled for this time for another hour. We’ll reassess the situation at that time and re-evaluate. Updates will be posted here.

Thanks for your patience.

Tags: email delivery, hardware, reboot
Categories: Email, Maintenance, NC027, Upgrades
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NC031 upgrade complete

16 July 2016 23:28:00 +0000

The upgrade of server NC031 was completed at 23:16 UTC, and the server is up and running. Thanks for your patience.

In light of this much faster upgrade we’re going to suggest that the bigger upgrade of server NC027 next weekend shouldn’t take nearly as long as is currently scheduled.

Tags: down time, email delivery, hardware, reboot, web server
Categories: Maintenance, NC027, NC031, Upgrades
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NC031 upgrade in progress

16 July 2016 23:10:01 +0000

The upgrade of NC031 started at 23:06 UTC and is currently in progress.

Tags: down time, hardware, reboot, web server
Categories: Maintenance, NC031, Upgrades
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NC027 and NC031: Server upgrades

13 July 2016 22:02:41 +0000

The above two servers — the primary mail (NC027) and web (NC031) servers — will undergo hardware upgrades during our regular weekend maintenance windows this weekend and next:

* 16 July, 23:00 UTC: NC031, duration approximately 2 hours
* 23 July, 23:00 UTC: NC027, duration approximately 7 hours

Please click on the above dates and times to use the World Time Server website to convert to your local time zone. The above durations are only estimates. Down time will be slightly less, as some of the work can be done while the servers are still up, and there’s always the possibility that the work will finish more quickly. However, please plan for the servers to be down for the entire durations stated above.

Incoming email during the maintenance of server NC027 on the weekend of 23 July will be held on the sending servers and delivered once the server is back online. No email will be lost.

During the maintenance this status website will be available, and we will post updates when the maintenance starts and ends, as well as during if necessary.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us to let us know. Thanks for your patience and understanding as we work to improve our service to you.

Tags: down time, email delivery, reboot, web server
Categories: Email, Maintenance, NC027, NC031, Upgrades
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NC020: Emergency maintenance complete

28 June 2016 12:36:56 +0000

Previous similar work on another server took well over an hour to complete, so to be on the safe side we estimated two hours of downtime for server NC020. However, this time it took only 33 minutes and the server was only down for a few minutes during that time.

Sometimes things go inexplicably well, so we’ll take the good news!

Tags: down time, hardware, reboot, web server
Categories: Maintenance, NC020
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NC020: Server going down for emergency maintenance

28 June 2016 11:35:28 +0000

Starting at approximately 11:45 UTC on Tuesday, 28 June 2016, server NC020 will undergo emergency maintenance. Some of the maintenance will need to be conducted offline. The server will be offline for up to two hours.

This will affect some websites, mostly WordPress websites that have not yet been migrated to server NC031. One website it will affect will be our status website, the one you’re reading right now. Once the server is back online, we’ll post an update here.

Email to the niner.net domain will also be interrupted during this maintenance.

We apologise for the inconvenience and the short notice. If you have any questions, please contact us. Thank-you for your patience.

Tags: down time, hardware, reboot, web server
Categories: Maintenance, NC020
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NC020: Web server problem

4 June 2016 06:49:09 +0000

The web server on server NC020 experienced a problem at 04:45 UTC on 4 June 2016, and shut itself down. The problem was rectified at 06:00.

We apologise for the problem, and will resume migration of the websites on NC020 to NC031 this coming week. If you have asked us to delay the migration of your website, please contact us if you still need a further delay.

Tags: down time, migration, reboot, web server
Categories: Incidents, NC020
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NC020: Earlier server reboot

21 November 2015 02:16:43 +0000

We have determined from monitoring logs that server NC020 was only offline for a few minutes, and was rebooted at 09:46 UTC on 20 November within a few minutes of the problem being discovered.

We apologise to those few clients still using server NC020 who may have been inconvenienced at that time.

If you have any questions about this, please let us know. Thanks.

Tags: connection issues, down time, reboot, web server
Categories: Incidents, NC020
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NC020: Server rebooted

20 November 2015 10:07:39 +0000

We have rebooted server NC020 after it was overwhelmed. We’re looking into it right now and will post details here as soon as we have them.

Tags: connection issues, down time, reboot, web server
Categories: Incidents, NC020
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NC023: Maintenance complete

1 November 2015 03:34:56 +0000

The upgrades to server NC023 completed at 03:22 UTC. We will run some tests to ensure that everything is fine.

If you have any issues with server NC023, please let us know. Thank-you.

Tags: down time, mail relay, reboot
Categories: Maintenance, NC023
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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?