Update: Maintenance complete.

Tonight at 11pm we will be performing updates across a wide array of systems, including mail, webmail, customer databases and hosting, as well as the VPN server.  Downtime on affected systems should be less than a few minutes, and we expect to complete the maintenance within 2 hours.

Update: Maintenance complete.

Tonight at midnight we will be rebooting the OpenVPN server at ovpn.sonic.net for scheduled maintenance. Expected downtime should be on the order of a few minutes. Disconnected clients may need to re-enter credentials after the service comes online.

This post will be edited once work is complete.

-System Operations

Update: All maintenance has been completed as of 12:30am.

Update: This maintenance has been rescheduled for tonight, 2018.08.08 at 11pm, and will include the VPN server.

Tonight at 11pm we will be performing updates to several systems, including the shell server, member tools, webmail, and others.  Any downtime should be brief and we expect to complete the maintenance within 1 hour.

Sonic Support will be closing early today, 7/30/2018, at 5pm to celebrate our 24th birthday!

Our 24×7 network operations team will remain on call for our Enterprise, dedicated circuit and colocated customers.

Support will return tomorrow, 7/31, to our normal working hours, 8am to 10pm.

-Dan & Support

Update: Maintenance is complete.

Tonight at 11pm we will be conducting maintenance operations on a range of servers, which will impact briefly services including member tools and webmail.  This maintenance should be completed within 2 hours, and we will update this post once it is finished.

Update: An issue that kept user directories from being mounted correctly has been resolved.

Update: Issues are still ongoing and being investigated.

This morning shell.sonic.net was briefly unreachable while instability issues were addressed. Shell sessions that were open were closed and the host was unavailable for a few minutes, but at this time it is back online and users are able to connect.

-System Operations

This morning we had to restart the OpenVPN instance running ovpn.sonic.net. The service should have only been unreachable briefly, and it is currently up and running. You may need to re-enter your credentials if your client has not already reconnected.

Thank you for your understanding,

System Operations

Update: Maintenance is complete.

Tonight at 11pm we will be conducting maintenance operations on a range of servers, which will impact briefly services including members tools and webmail.  This maintenance should be completed within 2 hours, and we will update this post once it is finished.

Tonight at 11:59 pm we will be performing updates to a range of systems, including mail, member tools, and ovpn.sonic.net.  There will be brief interruptions to these services as systems are rebooted.  We expect to conclude the maintenance within 1-2 hours.

Update 1:09am: Maintenance complete.

We are currently experiencing a small area outage for some Fusion Fiber customers in San Francisco. Our Network Engineers are currently working on a resolution but there is no ETR at this moment.

Update 7:20PM: Repairs are currently in progress, still no ETR at this point.

Update 2, 10:51PM: Replacement of a section of damaged fiber cable is required. Cable replacement is expected to begin at 8:00am, causing up to 2 hours of down time for customers served by the damaged cable.

UPDATE 3: The issue is still ongoing. The repair looks to take a bit longer. We are going for an estimated repair time of about 3pm.

UPDATE 4: As of 3pm the issue is still on going but we are making progress. Will update this page when we have more information.

Update 5, 4:50PM: Repairs have been completed and service is restored. If you are still experiencing connectivity issues please reboot your devices and then reach out to Sonic Support.