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