Archive for February, 2009

BT MBORC Update - 20 February 2009

Friday, February 20th, 2009

BT have announced that MBORC declarations have ended for the recent Winter weather conditions, at the latest, with effect from 12:00 Tuesday 17th February. At that time of the report, the only open blanket declarations in place were for Grampian, Highlands South (part) and Highlands North (part).

Planned Maintenance - PowerHost MySQL database server - 02/03/2009 23:00 - 03/03/2009 02:00

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Notice of planned maintenance scheduled for 02/03/2009 23:00 - 03/03/2009 02:00

NewNet engineers will be carrying out planned maintenance on the PowerHost shared MySQL database server, ‘mysql1′, to upgrade the hardware.  This work will improve performance for customers using a MySQL database on the PowerHost platform.

Users of this system will experience an outage whilst this work is undertaken.  The expected outage is no more than 1 hour, however the service is considered ‘at risk’ throughout the maintenance window.

NewNet Phone System

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

The NewNet telephone system has been restarted today due to an issue with the incoming call routing.

Customers calling any direct dial number into NewNet may not have been connected correctly, this issue has now been resolved and the telephone system is now working correctly.

Planned Maintenance - Web15 - 25/02/2009 - 22:00 - 00:00

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Notice of planned maintenance scheduled for Wednesday 25/02/2009 22:00 - Thursday 26/02/2009 00:00

NewNet engineers will be undertaking planned maintenance on the shared web server ‘web15′ (Sahasrar).  This work will require a reboot of this machine.

All services hosted on this server (Web / Email / FTP / MySQL) will be unavailable for a short period of time whilst this action is undertaken.  Expected down time is no more than 5 minutes, however the service is considered ‘at risk’ throughout the maintenance window.

PowerHost windows3 issue

Monday, February 16th, 2009

RESOLVED: 16/02/2009 18:15

The PowerHost server windows3 experienced an issue that required a reboot to restore service. Service was affected between 17:56 and 18:09 on 16/02/2009.