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.
Continue ReadingDallas 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.
Continue ReadingCity 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.
Continue ReadingServer 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.
Continue ReadingServer 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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