Recent Site Issues & Maintenance Warning.

[TStevens]

Some of you may have experienced issues getting to LEC, or LEC running slow.

Unfortunatley our webhost has been having problems with it's internal network after some pretty nasty powercuts a couple of months back. The powercuts and 'bad power' feeds knocked some of their kit pretty hard and they are still experiencing issues they thought has been resolved.

as a result there is some planned work on monday (thats tomorrow)

Monday night, we will upgrading our core networking equipment, which will result in some downtime of all services lasting approximately 30-45 minutes.
We're expecting this to put an end to the network problems that were created by the power outages about a month ago..

From what I've been able to read elsewhere on their site the upgrades basically mean they're replacing all of the core networkign equipment, as with anything IT, theres a strong chance the site will be down for longer than planned, however they don't appear to have set a time for when this maintenance will begin, this will be night time in the US so may affect UK early morning.

some snippets from their status page:

Wilmington Failed Over

Wilmingtons second network card, which carries internet traffic, decided to give up the ghost. The server is on shiny new hardware now and websites are already starting to serve again. Our apologies for the downtime.
Update: Sorry for the delay, the shiny new server required some more reconfiguration than previously suspected, but websites will indeed be working again shortly.
- Sep. 9, 2006 1:24 p.m.
Web Control Panel Issue Resolved

The network issues causing slowness for the web control panel for the web control panel have now been resolved. The network overall is more responsive and we will continue to make minor changes to keep everything working as well as possible. The major maintenance on Monday night will be essentially a complete replacement and upgrade of one of our core routers. In the meantime, we have been re-routing as much of our network traffic as possible through our other core router to improve overall performance.
- Sep. 9, 2006 2:48 a.m.
Web Control Panel Slowness

The network issues are also causing problems with the Web Control Panel for several users. We are looking into this and hope to have everything restored shortly.
- Sep. 8, 2006 8:56 p.m.
Network Problems Today

We have been experiencing Network Problems today. These problems are the same problems that have actually been happening since we first reported problems with our network. Unfortunately these problems have gotten worse today and are causing a majority of the downtime and slowness issues you are reporting today. These problems, and our attempts at fixing them, have been an ongoing effort. The maintenance Monday Night will be a big step towards resolving these problems completely. We are currently working on the network and all servers having problems and hope to improve the situation soon. Sorry about the downtime, we hope to have this all resolved soon.
- Sep. 8, 2006 5:45 p.m.