On Friday 18th October from 1AM until 4AM we will be replacing a pair of core network switches in our Maidenhead datacentre.
This will affect customers who we collocate servers for, some VoIP services, customer websites, access to our control pages and some outbound email services.
We expect there to be a couple of periods where connectivity to these services will be down for around 5-15 minutes at a time as we re-patch cables.
We'll update this post as the work is carried out.
This work is part of some wider work we're carrying out in Maidenhead over the next couple of months, and we'll be posting further planned work in due course.
On Friday 11th October from midnight until 3AM we will be replacing a pair of core network switches in our Maidenhead datacentre.
This will affect customers who we collocate servers for, some VoIP services, customer websites, access to our control pages and some outbound email services.
We expect there to be a couple of periods where connectivity to these services will be down for around 5-15 minutes at a time as we re-patch cables.
We'll update this post as the work is carried out.
This work is part of some wider work we're carrying out in Maidenhead over the next couple of months, and we'll be posting further planned work in due course.
We are increasing our capacity to BT by having new links installed.
This work actually started a few months ago, but the order process takes a long time! We are now at the stages of plugging in cables, configuring devices and then moving customers over.
This will be improving our capacity for our BT based ADSL, VDSL, G.FAST and FTTP circuits. TalkTalk connected circuits are unaffected (They are already using 10G links).
We will keep this status post updated with any work that may be customer affecting, we are also detailing the progress on this page: https://www.aa.net.uk/new-bt-hostlinks/
We've moved our IRC channel to a new host, if you're lurking in the old channel please update the details:
Host: irc.aachat.net
Port: 6697
Channel: #a&a (and #FireBrick for those interested in FireBrick)
tls: yes, enforced
We are thankful to the admins of the old service (irc.z.je) for the many years of service that they have provided us.