All systems are operational.
The mirror server will be down for a short period due to system reorganisation and operating system upgrades.
Due to server hardware maintenance, the following services will be interrupted:
DNS Name server service will remain operational, and no incoming e-mail will be lost - it will be queued for delivery.
Update 22:15: Maintenance commencing
Update 23:40: Maintenance completed, all customer virtual machines are starting up. Mail, DNS and web services are online.
We will be performing hypervisor maintenance on the physical host machine serving your Virtual Private Server (VPS) to better serve you in the future.
Impact
Your VPS will be shut down when maintenance starts, and will be started again after maintenance completes.
Maintenance window
Please note it is likely the maintenance will not take the entire window.
The network is fully operational again, no further hickups are expected until we start maintenance to fully cure this issue.
After several attempts to avoid the crashing issue, network configuration has been updated and the network should stabilize within the next minutes. An emergency maintenance will follow later this week to replace the routing stack with a more modern and resilient system.
Partial Boxed IT network outage in the bebru1 location (Unix-Solutions DC) due to 'rpd' routing daemon running out of memory. We are watching network recovery and preparing replacement router systems to replace our current Juniper stack.