Friday, May 1, 2015
Scheduled maintenance on links between Equinix CH1 and core network to improve link quality. Date: Sunday, May 10th, 2015 Start Time: 12:00 AM CDT (GMT -5) End Time: 2:00 AM CDT (GMT -5) Maintenance Scope: Fiber path between Equinix CH1 (chi00) and core network (chi02) Customer Impact: The data center will be performing a hot cut to reduce the distance and complexity of a...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
The data center has scheduled a power supply replacement in one of the distribution switches to address a failure. Date: Sunday, March 8th, 2015 Start Time: 12:00 AM CST (GMT -6) End Time: 3:00 AM CDT (GMT -5) Maintenance Scope: Power supply replacement in distribution switch in Chicago, IL Customer Impact: During the maintenance, a failing power supply will be replaced. There should be no...
Monday, February 2, 2015
The data center has scheduled a hardware replacement in one of core routers to address a known issue. Date: Sunday, February 8th, 2015 Start Time: 12:00 AM CST (GMT -6) End Time: 3:00 AM CST (GMT -6) Maintenance Scope: Line card replacement in core router Customer Impact: We expect the customer impact of this maintenance to be minimal, though some brief periods of localized inaccessibility...
Friday, September 26, 2014
A vulnerability has recently been disclosed in Bash (the GNU Bourne Again shell) which affects all systems running Linux. This vulnerability allows programs that allow users to provide values for variables to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the service. This issue does not permit direct privilege escalation. It has been assigned the ID CVE-2014-6271 [1] in the Common...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
We have implemented IPMI Control feature for all servers that have IPMI. For security, we highly recommend you to disable IPMI and only enable it when needs. To use IPMI Control feature, just login to your account and click on “Services” then click on “View Details” of the server you need to enable/disable IPMI. For colocation customers: this feature won't work if the...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
The datacenter scheduled an upgrade on core routers to address a software limitation. Date: Saturday, September 6th, 2014 Start Time: 12:00 AM CDT (GMT -5) End Time: 3:00 AM CDT (GMT -5) Maintenance Scope: Core routers in Chicago, IL Customer Impact: During the maintenance, the core routers will be updating the software. This may require a reboot....
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
The data center will be conducting maintenance on core routers in 350 E Cermak Rd, Chicago. This maintenance was originally scheduled for Sunday, February 16th, but was cancelled due to a network event at the time. Date: Sunday, March 2, 2014 Start Time: 2:00 AM CST (GMT-6) End Time: 3:00 AM CST (GMT-6) Maintenance Scope: Core Routers in Chicago for chi01, chi02 Location: Chicago...
Friday, February 14, 2014
Date: Sunday, February 16, 2014 Start Time: 2:00 AM CST (GMT-6) End Time: 3:00 AM CST (GMT-6) Maintenance Scope: Core Routers in Chicago for chi01, chi02 Customer Impact: Possible Period of suboptimal routing The data center will be performing maintenance on core routers at 350 E Cermak Rd to increase capacity between them. We expect the customer impact of this maintenance to...
Monday, September 23, 2013
Our data center will be performing power maintenance that may cause an interruption of aggregation layer networking equipment in chi02 facility (350 E. Cermak Rd., Suite 240 West). This maintenance is being performed to add power redundancy to the network gear and other equipment. Date: Sunday, September 29th, 2013 Start Time: 12:00 AM CDT (GMT -5) End Time: 4:00 AM CDT (GMT -5)...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Scheduled maintenance to migrate GTT (formerly nLayer) link over to the new core router. This maintenance was originally planned for two weeks ago but was postponed. Date: Sunday, July 28th 2013 Start Time: 12:00 AM CDT (GMT-5) End Time: 2:00 AM CDT (GMT-5) Maintenance Scope: admin down the GTT link on core router "core1.chi02", then physically move the link to the...
