Category: email

SPF record added to domains with Sonic DNS & Email hosting

Today on August 22, 2022, we added a default SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record to every customer domain name that has Sonic DNS hosting and email hosted with Sonic.

On August 15th, we emailed everyone who would be impacted by this change. The email subject was “Important information about your Sonic domain email hosting” and included a list of domain names that would be updated.

If you did not receive the email or do not have domain email and DNS hosting with Sonic, this notification does not apply to you.

If you received the above notification email and did not opt out or add an SPF record before today, the following SPF record was added to your domain:

"v=spf1 include:mail.sonic.net ~all"

For more information, please see our help document SPF and Sonic. To learn more about SPF, see Sender Policy Framework on Wikipedia.

We made this change to fight spam & phishing and to help ensure reliable email delivery for our domain email customers. SPF tells other email providers that Sonic is authorized to send email on behalf of these hosted domain names.

Non Intrusive Systems Maintenance

Update 6/4 12:35AM: Maintenance successfully completed for tonight.

Tonight at 11:59, we will be performing maintenance on network hardware that up-links servers for a variety of Sonic services including email and web hosting.  All involved equipment is redundant and we do not expect any impact to Sonic customers.  The maintenance window is open until 4am.

-Network Engineering and Systems

Northern California Network Core Maintenance

Update(1:10AM): Maintenance successfully completed.

Tomorrow (9/17/20) at 11:59PM we will be performing maintenance on core network hardware in our Santa Rosa data-center.  We expect this maintenance to be non-intrusive, but has the potential to impact a wide range of enterprise and Sonic hosted services.  The maintenance window will be 4 hours.

– Network Engineering

Sonic Data Center Core Maintenance – Night 2 of 2

Update(1:50AM) Maintenance ran long due to unforeseen hardware issues, but all work has been been successfully completed.

Wednesday, January 8, starting at 11:59pm, we will be performing maintenance on core equipment in our Santa Rosa HQ Data Center. Minimal customer impact is expected, with brief periods of routing instability towards some Sonic services, such as web-hosting, email and Member Tools. This maintenance window is 4 hours.

-Network Engineering

Sonic Data Center Core Maintenance – Night 1 of 2

Update(1:20AM) All work for tonight has successfully concluded.

Tuesday, January 7, starting at 11:59pm, we will be performing maintenance on core equipment in our Santa Rosa HQ Data Center. Minimal customer impact is expected, with brief periods of routing instability towards some Sonic services, such as web-hosting, email and Member Tools. This maintenance window is 4 hours.

-Network Engineering

System Maintenance

Update: Maintenance Complete

 

Tonight at 11:59 pm we will be running a maintenance window to apply software updates to multiple customer facing systems. The following services may experience brief interruptions:

  • SMTP/IMAP/POP3
  • Customer tools (Webmail, Membertools)
  • Hosted MySQL Databases.
  • IPv6 Tunnels

The maintenance window is expected to last 1 hour.

-SOC

System Maintenance

UPDATE: Maintenance complete

 

Starting at 11:59pm SOC will be running system updates. The following services may experience brief interruptions:

Webmail
IMAP/POP3/SMTP
IPv6 tunnels
Membertools

Interruptions to individual services will be brief, and the Maintenance window is expected to last until 1am.

-Grant and SOC

System Maintenance

Starting at 11:59pm SOC will be running system updates. The following services may experience brief interruptions:

  • Webmail
  • IMAP/POP3/SMTP
  • Customer MySQL databases
  • IPv6 tunnels
  • FTP
  • Membertools

Interruptions to individual services will be brief, and the Maintenance window is expected to last until 1am.

-Grant and SOC

Scheduled System Maintenance

Update: Maintenance complete.

Tonight at 11pm we will be performing updates to several systems; Impacted customer facing services will include mail and member tools.  Any interruptions to service should be brief and the maintenance should be completed within 1 hour. Thank you.

System Maintenance

Update: All updates were complete as of 1:00am this morning.

System Operations will be performing updates tonight starting at 11:59pm. The following services may be temporarily unreachable for a few minutes as servers are rebooted:

  • Member Tools
  • Webmail
  • Mail (IMAP/POP3)
  • Secure Hosting

— Joe and the SOC