Author Archives: Richard Siggs

This may not justify a post, but after many years of constant operation and availability, one of our fibre uplinks into the Internet from our Sydney racks in Equinix SY1 Data Centre went down (full loss of light, not just … Continue reading →

There was a scheduled maintenance outage of our Adelaide connectivity while local Adelaide based works were completed by our upstream provider in Adelaide. This resulted in a 15 minute (as scheduled) outage of our Adelaide POP from around 1:30am on … Continue reading →

Xen is still a popular and well used virtualisation technology and we’re upgrading and migrating many of our Xen VPS customers to newer hardware and hypervisor environments, on faster disk sub-systems, to continue their service on our newer server platforms. … Continue reading →

An unscheduled outage has occurred on our Adelaide POP’s Telstra Fibre link to the Internet from ~2:30pm Adelaide time on the afternoon of Tuesday March 26th 2024. I’ll update this post with more information as it comes to hand and … Continue reading →

Over the last few months we’ve upgraded and increased in capacity the UPS capabilities of our Adelaide POP. We’ve now got some 10 hours of Adelaide POP operations available at any time on batteries should the mains/grid supply fail for … Continue reading →

We’ve had a large UPS fail at the Adelaide POP and on Wednesday February 7th 2024 electricians are attending to replace the failed component and restore our Adelaide POP to its long term large off-grid battery capacity. The Adelaide POP … Continue reading →

We’ve found an issue with VPS Backups being able to be performed on VPS Hosting Node 70 in Sydney. This is now fixed and backups can be run for VPS on Node 70 again. FYI and regards,Richard.

An unscheduled outage has occurred on our Adelaide POP’s Telstra Fibre link to the Internet from ~1:30am Adelaide time on the morning of Tuesday December 12th 2023. The fault is logged with Telstra and has been acknowledged by them to … Continue reading →

Node 83 running some VPS from our Shopfront site experienced a fault & was quickly restarted this afternoon (Thursday Dec 7th 2023). Our monitoring system alerted us within moments of the event & we had it restarted within minutes from … Continue reading →

We’ve got the first signs of a storage devices failing sometime soon in Node 8 in our Sydney POP. Node 8 was already on our list for aging out of our fleet as part of our regular upgrade program, but … Continue reading →