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  • 2010
    • July
      • Data Vault
        07/16/10
        You may have noticed that all data vault driven services are currently unavailable. This is due to a major load balancer failure.


        This prevents you from accessing your DV account, your picture gallery, etc.
        No data is lost, you just don't have any means of getting to it. T

    • May
      • Firefox 3.6.3 ...oh boy...
        05/11/10
        :(
        If you've been using our services for as long as some of you have, you would have noticed how we decided to only allow Firefox to connect to Data Vault.
        That is about to change since lately Firefox is just bad news all around. Issues, crashes, incompatible plugins, etc...are just

    • March
      • Filer2 Maintnance
        03/10/10
        RPC and NFS file locking problems seem to have been the cause of unavailable mailboxes and errors while using webmail.
        Problems have been restored to normal.

        Enjoy the ride!

        Admin
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        We are currently performing some maintenance on filer2. Th

  • 2009
    • October
      • Mail Server Problem
        10/30/09
        Minutes ago we noticed some problems with our primary mail server. We're working on repairing this issue so stay tuned.


        Meanwhile all your incoming mail shall be queued on our backup server, but will only be forwarded to your account after all services have been restored.

    • July
      • Data Vault and Firefox
        07/14/09
        As of today, all access to Data Vault has been limited to Mozilla Firefox (all late versions). This is due to some incompatibility and security issues with all the other browsers, thus we've decided to prevent anyone from connecting unless they use Firefox.

        Admin

    • June
      • Data Vault Update
        06/09/09
        Finally after lots of users winning and crying out loud, we decided to fix the archive upload issue. It wasn't really an issue, however, here's what happened.


        The "Archive Uploader" module worked fine, but while uploading one did not receive any feedback, if the

    • May
      • New Email Restrictions
        05/24/09

        It has come to our attention that lots of users take advantage of our generous and flexible e-mail services to share files.
        Again, e-mail is not intended to share files, especially large files. It's not designed to cope with high volumes of data as some of you would like it to be.
      • Security Certificate for Etonic Networks
        05/01/09
        As you already know, we are very concerned with your data security and safety. Therefore, we had implemented SSL certificates to prevent anyone from eves dropping on your e-mails or data vault activity.

        We decided to self-sign our own certificates, therefore not all Internet Browsers unde

    • April
      • E-mail Server Issue
        04/24/09
        Primary e-mail server went down around 6PM. We're currently spooling all incoming mail on our MX server until we figure out what's going on.
        We're currently working on this problem, thus resolution is not in sight yet.
        Check back here for details as we make progress. We alwa

      • Sending Large Attachments via E-mail
        04/20/09
        We had notices a few complains about our spam filtering system regarding large attachments.
        First of all, we don't recommend anyone sending any file attachments larger than 1Mb in size via e-mail. That's just ignorant in our opinion.
        E-mail is not intended to relay large attachme

      • News
        04/10/09
        Etonic Networks is going into a new and totally different direction once again. Like always we've been trying for the past 10 years to just provide cutting edge services to all of our precious customers.

        Soon, we're going to provide broadband internet access and consumer grade V

      • Happy Birthday to us - Etonic Networks is 10 years old today.
        04/04/09
        We just turned 10 today. That means we're all grown up and ready to do more business for more customers.



        Stay tuned. There are some major changes coming up this Summer. We are very excited to announce that we are going to offer some new and exciting services very soon.
    • March
      • Mail Server Issues
        03/14/09
        As of 10:30PM we have been experiencing problems with our primary e-mail server. You may have received a lot of spam due to this problem, among other things.
        Login from the web, pop3 and smtp to this mache have been currently disabled. Your e-mail is being queued to out MX server. No e-mails sh

    • February
      • Scheduled Routine Maintenance
        02/24/09
        Today we have another scheduled downtime. This is due to a core switch upgrade. The Cisco Catalyst Engine is being upgraded to a newer, faster, more versatile version.
        That doesn't only improve the quality of service, but it becomes more flexible to future upgrades.



      • We Support Fedora Project
        02/24/09
        We are happy to announce that we are officially a full Fedora mirror. This is located here: http://core03.etonic.net/fedora/ .


        We have both i386 and 64bit rpms available from FC1 to F10. That includes everything :D

        Enjoy!

      • Mail Server Issues
        02/17/09
        As of Sunday night we've been experiencing slow connections to webmail and some customers have reported lost or undelivered e-mails.



        We're investigating the situation and working towards a resolution. Please check back here for updates.

        Admin.

      • Network Outage
        02/13/09
        Update - 2/17/09

        The routers are back up and running at full speed. No issues so far.

        Admin



        We have scheduled a network upgrade for this weekend. It's scheduled for Sunday night at 9PM EST.
        We don't expect the downtime window to be longer

  • 2008
    • December
      • Router Finally Fixed
        12/02/08
        It's been more than a week since we're repaired the core router. Now everything seems to be running smooth. No more interruptions, no more issues.


        The fail-over router is still under works but we're confident we're going to get it in production before the end of

    • November
      • Random Downtime
        11/17/08
        Many of you may have noticed the problem, unable to connect to etonic.net or your own domain hosted with us.

        Our core router is extremely unreliable. It started off by rejecting connections on the internal fiber interface.
        After a quick and dirty kernel upgrade, the situation got w

      • New Horizons
        11/05/08
        We have started a new project a couple of days ago. We got the domain we wanted, and parked it on a server so far.
        The idea is to create a website that provides web hosting for average Joe the plumber, not for Mike the PHP the programmer.
        No buzz words, no coding, no confusion. We're

    • September
      • Datacenter Relocation and Downtime
        09/23/08
        As you already know we have relocated our datacenter. We now have tier1 Internet connectivity and more space.
        All that came at a cost of downtime. We went offline roughly Friday afternoon and did not come back up until really fully functional today (Tuesday).

        Some of the problems wer

    • June
      • Network Area Storage
        06/18/08
        Last night we started upgrading one of our new fiber layer 2 switches. This connects our Vault load balancer to our cust01 and cust02 servers back to our main Cisco switch.
        As you already know these 2 servers provide the Vault and Gallery services.

        We upgraded them from 2 x 100Mbps l

      • Power Outage
        06/11/08
        Some of you may have noticed that etonic.net was unreachable from late in the day until this early morning.

        There was a major power outage in the whole block, and our entire DC was out of power for roughly 6 hours.



        We managed to keep it alive for a while but when we

      • Archive Upload on Vault
        06/10/08
        As some of you have already noticed. Our Data Vault now allows you to upload archives, not just individual pictures.

        It currently supports the following archive formats: zip, rar, tar, tgz, and gz. There are more to be added soon, but we believe these are the most popular.

        Once

      • Picture Gallery Issue
        06/09/08
        The Picture Gallery is currently unavailable. We have a problem with the session on our servers.
        We are currently working on this issue.

        The issue has not been resolved as of 9:30AM

        Please check back here for updates.

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      • Data Vault Load Balancer
        06/02/08
        Some of your heavy vault users may have noticed the issue.

        In the past 3-4 days we had some problems with the load balancing among the vault file servers.
        The symptoms were a combination of: unable to login, being kicked off, bouncing between servers and of course slow logins and ti

    • April
      • We are getting DDOSed as of 10:30AM
        04/11/08
        We're under DDoS attack. Several hosts bounce back to our 2 main e-mail servers. This is causing lots of traffic and undeliverable e-mails.
        We are currently working on resolving this issue.

    • February
      • We hate spam, I tell ya...
        02/18/08
        Spam is being a bitch and we hate it!
        Now that the e-mail server is back on its feet, we took the time to update spamasassin and reworked the procmail scripts.
        Now, you have individual "spam" folders where you can "collect" all kinds of spam. If you don't mind, we&

      • E-mail Server
        02/18/08
        As you may have noticed, e-mail services were unavailable late Friday through early Sunday this past week.
        The reason, primary e-mail server has failed with Kernel Panic.

        Not good! Bad! Very bad actually...

        Good thing we had several backups and got right back on track with

    • January
      • NAS Maintenance
        01/25/08
        This is a scheduled maintenance service that needs to be done on out NAS.
        The downtime will render all cust01, cust02, data vault, users, to be unreachable.

        The following servers will not be accessible during this upgrade:

        cust01.etonic.net
        cust02.etonic.net
        user

      • Data Vault Changes
        01/09/08
        For those of you who use our "data vault", you may have noticed the issues.
        Video files were being corrupted when downloaded. All other types had no problems however.
        The issue has been resolved as of the time of this post.


        The vault is still under heavy developm

  • 2007
    • December
      • Uplink Provider Problems
        12/18/07
        Downtime seems to have improved lately until we started having issues with one of our uplink providers.


        3 out of 4 segments were down. We've opened a support ticket with them and working in conjunction to get this issue fixed.
        Check back here for updates. This is an ongoin

      • Core Router Issues
        12/14/07
        Details on what happened to the core router. To be honest, I don't exactly know. It just won't initialize all network interfaces and that caused iptables to to be all screwed up.
        Out of 5 currently used segments only 3 would come up in random order; very weird indeed.


      • Power Outage
        12/14/07
        Yesterday during the ice storm we had a power outage for about an hour.
        All systems performed well on UPSes until we decided to go ahead and power down since it looked like this will take a while. We had to choose between waiting for the UPS power to run out and crash all the servers or proper

      • DNS2 Down :(
        12/12/07
        DNS2 has been flaky in the past few hours. It is now taken down and looked at.
        It's services should resume by the end of the day.



        Check back for updates.

      • Filer Under Major Upgrade
        12/12/07
        Finally our main filer NAS has undergone "surgery" in the last 24 hours. Now we're in the process of moving data to the new disk arrays and remap NFS for all web servers including the 2 vault servers.

        Affected servers are: cust01, cust02.

        If you are not able to l

      • Filer Hardware Problems
        12/07/07
        Data Vault was down yesterday due to disk failures. Drives were replaces and we're back in business. We are scheduling a downtime however for maintenance and small updates on some of the machines.
        Servers affected: cust01, cust02, moonshine and pepsi. Everything else should be ok.
        Dow

      • Uptime has been good
        12/02/07
        We try most of the time to keep you informed about scheduled downtimes, thus we try to avoid them at all costs.



        Some of our customers still like to procrastinate about any and all little issues that arise. Remember, machines fail and sometimes they fail big. I guarantee you th

    • November
      • Etonic Networks Hosting
        11/14/07
        Albert Einstein is always right.

      • Updates
        11/12/07
        Finally got the UPS' in on Friday and within the hour we got them installed and operational.

        Also, the core router is now happily running on new hardware with lots of memory and fiber ports :D YAY!

        No network outages at this moment.
        Let's hope it stays that way

      • New Hardware for Core Router
        11/08/07
        It's finally here. Friday night at 10:30PM we're going to swap the Core router and move it to better, faster, more reliable hardware.

        Downtime should be +/-30 minutes. Hopefully everything will work out as scheduled.

        Check back here for updates or changes...

      • UPS Batteries Update
        11/08/07
        They are on their way. Theory says we should get them unloaded and installed early next week.



        Hopefully if everything works out, the downtime should he minimal, more like 10 minutes tops. We'll schedule it for Tuesday or Wednesday but check this post for detailed updates.

      • Server move done!
        11/08/07
        Finally the server move is complete. All users should notice increased speed in page load, and better overall performance.



        Ererything else is running smoothly at this time.

      • Data Vvvvault Down :(
        11/05/07
        Friday, Nov 2nd we had some problems with one of our Data Vault servers.



        This machine decided to reject all incoming connections at about 3:00pm EST.
        The main web server, being as smart as it is locked it out displaying a message that you should try out later when you tr

      • Upcoming Server Move
        11/05/07
        Web server mojito and tequilla are being moved to new hardware. Most likely tonight. If you're housed on one of these machine, be aware of this scheduled downtime.



        As always, your e-mail services, webmail, database, etc should not be affected by this downtime.
        Estima

    • October
      • Router Update
        10/27/07
        We got some news about the router update. It hasn't happened yet.
        We decided we need to get new hardware all together and then transfer the router to it.

        As usual, check back here to find out when the downtime is going to be scheduled.
        We don't like to take anybody

      • Fedora Core
        10/23/07
        As you know we only use Linux and more specifically Fedora Core OS' here at Etonic Networks.



        We thought we'll give you an update on what's going on here as far as the router upgrade. Well it's still underway, not really!
        Hopefully this week we'll

      • Core Router Issue
        10/21/07
        The scheduled core router upgrade did not go according to plan. We encountered several problems along the way such as bad fiber boards, and routing tables issues.
        After a few hours of struggling, we decided it wasn't a good idea to keep our customers waiting any longer so we stopped the pr

      • Core router #1 faild on Tuesday
        10/18/07
        Oh no! Core router #1 is quiet...no humming, no lights, dead. After swearing up and down the datacenter we realized we should do something about it. Duhhh!

        Our second core router took over the load but not after we realized it was not redundant. We had to move an entire segment over (phys

      • Lights out?
        10/18/07
        As we get more servers, more services and so many customers with high demands we noticed we have had some power outages lately.

        Thus, we have must get large UPS systems installed. The current ones just don't cut it anymore with the addition of so many new servers.

        Announce

      • We just got new hardware
        10/18/07
        This is just a stock image to make this look more pleasing. We recently just cut a check, (WE'VE CUT A BIG CHECK) and bought a bunch of new servers.



        Of course we did not want to settle for cheap sh*t but did not want to buy Dell or Compaq either.
        Making the long stor