27May2024

City of Cape Town Power Maintenance – 1 June

City of Cape Town Power Maintenance - 1 June

The City of Cape Town will be conducting major power infrastructure upgrades on Saturday 1 June. The Xneelo data centre in Cape Town will revert to generator power for the duration of the maintenance.

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26May2024

Dallas Data Centre Outage – 26 May

Dallas Data Centre Outage - 26 May

The Dallas Data Centre experienced a power outage following a major storm. Initial reports are that battery and generator backup systems kicked in as expected, but then got overloaded leading to a complete shutdown. Carrier-1 is a top-tier data centre, and we know that they will investigate and fix the weaknesses in backup power systems.

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20May2024

City of Cape Town Power Maintenance – 25 May

City of Cape Town Power Maintenance - 25 May

The City of Cape Town will be conducting major power infrastructure upgrades on Saturday 25 May. The Xneelo data centre in Cape Town will revert to generator power for the duration of the maintenance.

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14May2024

Server W-29 Emergency Maintenance – 14 May

Server W-29 Emergency Maintenance - 14 May

The server is back online after emergency maintenance. We had to go offline to fix things after a scheduled cPanel upgrade went wrong.

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17Apr2024

Server W-29 maintenance – 19 April

Server W-29 maintenance - 19 April

We have scheduled hardware maintenance on server W-29 in Dallas for Friday 19 April. The server will be offline for about 15 minutes to receive a firmware update and to swap out memory sticks.

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