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'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.
We will be performing a software upgrade to our POP3 and IMAP servers on Sunday 16th June from 8AM.
The nature of this work requires that all the servers in the cluster need to be upgraded at the same time, this means there will be a period of around 15 minutes where POP3 and IMAP access to email will be unavailable.
We will update this post as the work is carried out
On Sunday 16th June between 3am - 5am we will be carrying out general core network maintenance.
We expect there to be some disruption during this time.
We will be performing general maintenance on the bulk of our servers. Most of this will not affect customers, but there may be times when some services (eg our control pages) will be offline for a short while.
This work won't affect general internet access.
The work will take place from 10PM through to 11:30PM on 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd May. Staff will post in IRC when the work is starting and what, if anything, it it likely to affect.
Between 03:00 - 05:00 Sunday 7th April we will be upgrading software some of our switch stacks in London.
We expect this to cause some disruption to broadband and TalkTalk Ethernet services.
Between 03:00 - 05:00 Sunday 24th we will be upgrading software some of our switch stacks in London.
We expect this to cause some disruption to broadband services.