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We need to perform emergency maintenance on the network portion our entire Windows Hosting Network tonight which will affect ALL windows shared hosting services – this maintenance will last approximately 40 minutes the services on 81.17.250.0 /23 are affected (access to websites / MSSQL etc. )
We are experiencing issues with one of our windows shared hosting nodes the following IPs are affected 81.17.250.143 81.17.250.113 81.17.250.177 81.17.250.160 81.17.250.41 An engineer is currently investigating the issue and we will update this post once we know more UPDATE : 09:30 The server is back online now
We need to perform some file system maintenance on PEMWINWEB14 which will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. We expect the server to be back online shortly. UPDATE @ 17:01 – This took a few minutes longer than expected but this host is back online now..
We are scheduling an emergency maintenance window to troubleshoot an issue with a core router in Equinix DB2. To facilitate this, we will need to temporarily shut down peering sessions on INEX LAN1. Customers may experience brief periods of packet loss and increased latency during the maintenance window as the network re-converges. Services in Equinix DB2 […]