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Anycast DNS outage

Summary: We started seeing sporadic responses from our AnyCast  DNS servers last night. We contacted AfiliasDNS who operate that service for us. As of yet we haven’t had a reply or a resolution from them that gives us any insight as to what the problem is. What impact is there on customers: Typically, none. But […]

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broadband database backend migration

Summary: Wednesday 16/11 @ 10:00am we’ll be migrating the database backend for our broadband control systems to new infrastructure. What: We’re running a GaleraDB cluster on MariaDB 10.1 and we want to migrate this MariaDB 10.6. Rather than doing this in-situ and having no roll back plan we made new VMs and a new GaleraDB […]

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plesk001 and plesk002 are down due to packaging issues

Summary: A problem was noticed with the Plesk control panel related to a mariadb package. The package in question was updated which appears to have caused further updates. Both machines are being rolled back to their last snapshots (approx 3am) and will be back online around 09:30 this morning. We’re keeping the original disks for […]

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