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Tue Feb 25 15:25:29 PST 1997 — UUNet’s San Jose router rebooted and was offline for about 30 minutes, and our Cisco router automaticly switched everything over to the other connection, meaning no interruption of service. These are the type of things that set Sonic apart from other ISPs – users were unaffected by an upstream outage due to our redundancy and planning. It’s great when these things work out! -Dane

Mon Feb 24 21:57:31 PST 1997 — On Wednesday February 26th, at 2am, we will commission our new network news server into production. This will mean about a 30 minute outage as our news servers swap roles. We’ve attempted to make this upgrade as seamless as possible — most especially, no changes need be made on network news clients. -Scott

Sat Feb 22 04:59:07 PST 1997 — News server update. Our new news server is still spooling news, which is currently using 4.6 GB of space on the 24 GB disk spool. We’re planning on putting it into production Tuesday or Wednesday, which will mean about a 15 minute outage during the wee hours of the morning. -Scott

Sat Feb 22 04:25:12 PST 1997 — Saturday morning, we installed a new SCSI controller and a DLT tape drive in Thunder, our web server. This will be used to make fast, automatic backups of the 12Gb RAID-5 disk array. Additionally, we added hardware to our ISDN router, which increases our ISDN capacity by 50 percent. -Scott

Fri Feb 21 19:33:42 PST 1997 — At 3am Saturday morning, we will be taking the web server offline briefly to add a new 8-bit SCSI bus. This will allow us to attach the new DLT tape drive. The installation shouldn’t take longer than 30 minutes. -Scott

Thu Feb 20 11:00:58 PST 1997 — The ISDN terminal server upgrade has been rescheduled. We’ll keep you posted here. We will be taking the ISDN terminal server offline briefly to install new hardware. This gives us 50% more ISDN capacity and should only take about 10 minutes. -Dane

Thu Feb 20 21:25:40 PST 1997 — At 2am Saturday morning, we will be taking the ISDN terminal server offline briefly to install new hardware. This gives us 50% more ISDN capacity. The installation shouldn’t take longer than 30 minutes. -Scott

Thu Feb 20 09:17:58 PST 1997 — At 11am today, we’ll be taking the ISDN terminal server offline briefly to install new hardware. This gives us 50% more ISDN capacity and should only take about 10 minutes. -Dane

Wed Feb 19 19:44:23 PST 1997 — We goofed! Webspace for users who’s logins start with ‘a’ and cgi space for users ‘a’ thru ‘d’ was removed from the system. We’ve restored from tape, but some changes which you’ve made recently in your web or cgi space may have been lost. We most humbly apologize for this mistake, and please know that we are working on both technical and policy solutions to reduce chances of data loss. -Sonic

Wed Feb 19 16:55:37 PST 1997 — We goofed! Webspace for users who’s logins start with ‘a’ and cgi space for users ‘a’ thru ‘d’ was removed from the system. We’re currently putting it back online from a backup, but some changes which you’ve made recently in your web or cgi space may have been lost. I expect to have the restore finished within an hour or so. Sorry! -Dane