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We need to perform emergency maintenance on a Hosted Exchange Mailbox Database which may impact performance for some customers. We expect this to be completed by 18:00 today Friday. We apologies in advance for any inconvenience caused.
We are scheduling two maintenance windows to upgrade the version of IOS-XR on our edge routers in Interxion DUB1. To facilitate this, we will need to temporarily shut down certain peering and transit sessions. While no customer impact is anticipated, services in Interxion DUB1 should be considered at risk during these maintenance windows. Date: 2017-01-05 23:00 – 2017-01-06 04:00 UTC Data […]
We will be performing essential software patches to our Qmail storage platform tomorrow (Saturday 10/12/2016 23:00) in conjunction with our storage partners. This will require a reboot of the storage nodes to allow the patch to be applied and will result in the mailboxes being unavailable for the duration. Inbound email will be queued and […]
In line with standard industry best practice, we will be implementing a change freeze over the Christmas Holiday period again this year. What is a change freeze? Engineering changes to our core network, shared hosting infrastructure and dedicated-server infrastructure will be suspended for the duration of the freeze. Change freezes are normal practice within the […]