Network Presence Blog

We keep visits to a minimum at the “Lights Out Mode” main data centre POP of Network Presence in Sydney, but we want to deploy new hardware and software to this main POP and this work requires us to physically attend the Data Centre (Equinix in Sydney) to perform actions which are highly technical & specific to the hardware and systems of Network Presence.

These upgrades include software and hardware updates to give Network Presence a “leg up” in capacity, including memory, CPU & network upgrades. For example, I’ll be installing and commissioning upgraded Routers & Switches to the POP, which will result in more 10Gb Ethernet network connections for server and storage interconnects, as well as physical diverse network connectivity in Sydney and more Virtualisation Hosting Servers.

Accordingly, I’ll be emailing all customers who may be affected by the short restarts etc that will occur during this Maintenance Window, which starts from ~10pm Sydney time on the evening of Friday February 1st, 2013. Each customer is not expected to see more than a few short outages (during the evening) of connectivity to or operation of their VPS or other service from Network Presence, and I’ll be contactable by phone & online during and after these works incase there’s any issues that arise.
All works that evening will be completed by 4-5am on Saturday, February 2nd 2013 Sydney/Australia time.

FYI and regards,
Richard.