Our ServicesWe anticipate no consequential issue with our various hosting services, and remain available for support via the normal channels. Netnorth followed its business continuity plan under our ISO27001 ISMS, commencing approximately 1 week prior to the government’s similar advice. All staff are practicing segregated or remote working, with skeleton… Continue reading
Today’s generator test was successful. We completed a 20 minute off-load generator test this morning with no faults. Our next sheduled off-load generator test is Monday 24th September 2012. Our next scheduled on-load full generator test is Monday 1st October 2012.
The server, www10, is restored on temporary hardware.
The virgin media circuit was restored around 3:30pm after a 2 hour outage. Traffic has stabalised between the circuits. We are awaiting a further detailed explanation from virgin media.
Today we saw the number of active IPv6 routes on the internet hit 10,000. Each route is (more or less) one ISP on the internet. This shows the growth of providers taking up the next generation protocol. As you may be aware, the availability of IPv4 (current) IP addresses is… Continue reading
We have received the official reason for outage from Level3 Communications for the brief 5 minute outage on our Level3 IP connectivity yesterday (12th September 2012) shortly after midnight. The outage was caused by routine maintenance by Level3 who had failed to notify us in advance. This has been resolved… Continue reading
We are currently upgrading the capacity on our secondary IP transit connection from Cogent Communications. This circuit is being increased to 1000mbps. The new fibre optic interlink has been installed, the configuration will be complete by the end of September 2012. This link provides both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity to… Continue reading
One of our web servers (www10) is currently offline due to a hardware failure. The event started around noon. We are currently restoring the data to a new piece of hardware, ETA just over 1 hour.
Our monitoring systems detected a circuit failure between Bolton 1 and Manchester 2 locations, supplied by Virgin Media Business. A ticket has been lodged with the supplier for them to investigate a potential fibre fault. All traffic was automatically re-routed via our alternate path with Cable&Wireless in the meantime.
We’ve started to increase our AVS (anti-virus and anti-spam system) scanners recently. This is our latest scanner node, a HP BL465c quad quadcore Blade with 32GB of ram. While this might seem rather excessive for a bit of email scanning, the technology behind our scanners is very CPU and memory… Continue reading