Author Archives: Richard Siggs

A recent power system transition to our UPS batteries revealed a problem in the dual feed/redundant power supply of the VPS Hosting Server known as Node 100 in our Adelaide POP. We’ve got a replacement for this PSU (power supply … Continue reading →

Our Adelaide POP has experienced a grid power failure and is currently running on battery based UPS and is expected to be returning to the mains based power in 3 hours this evening, with the grid power lost at midnight … Continue reading →

Our Internet connectivity suppliers in our main Sydney Data Centre POP have been doing updates (mostly software based) to their Sydney based routers and networks, and though we pay for a supposedly redundant service there with multiple physically separate fibre … Continue reading →

Over the late afternoon & evening of Tuesday November 21st 2023 and into the early morning of Wednesday the 22nd we will be performing upgrades to selected hosting server platforms & one of our network uplinks of Network Presence in … Continue reading →

Our Shopfront / Shop site went down today and the root cause was that it needed more RAM/memory and a couple more CPUs to keep up with its usage demands. It’s running much better now after getting double its previous … Continue reading →

Node 110 in Adelaide is getting an upgrade, which will ~double its hosting capacity and increase the speed of Node 110 in general. These physical upgrades to Node 110 are scheduled to begin from Friday night October 27th 2023 through … Continue reading →

Node 190 in Adelaide has suffered a PSU failure and is being bought back online with replacements this evening. I’ll update this post in comments as Node 190 and its VPS load come back online during this evening as repairs … Continue reading →

We’ve got the first signs of a storage devices failing sometime soon in Node 10 in our Sydney POP. Accordingly we’re starting the migration of customer VPS on that alerting storage and this is underway on Wednesday evenings and weekends. … Continue reading →

An unscheduled outage has occurred on our Adelaide POP’s Telstra Fibre link to the Internet from ~5:30am Adelaide time on the morning of Thursday September 21st 2023. The fault is logged with Telstra and has been acknowledged by them to … Continue reading →

As mentioned here and in our Blog site, we’ve got more of our new latest generation of VPS Hosting Nodes online in our Sydney POP. This means we’ll be migrating more customer VPS over to these new hosting nodes in … Continue reading →