Start: 2024-11-26 22:00 UTC / November 26 - 4:00 PM CST
End: 2024-11-27 02:00 UTC / July 29 - 8:00 PM CST
During the above Maintenance Window our Data Center Provider will be performing maintenance on the network equipment in our primary data center location.
We expect a minimum downtime or outage during this window. However, there may be an delays connecting to our infrastructure during the above window.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.
On November 8, 2024 start about 5:28AM CST our Status Site (https://status.madscitech.net) went offline due to an expired HTTPS certificate. We have found that the outage was caused by our strict HTTPS Issuing Policy we had configured for our domain. We have made changes to the records that control this process and should not happen in the future.
We aplogize for this outage, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.
Start: 2024-07-29 10:00 UTC / July 29 - 5:00 AM CDT
End: 2024-07-29 12:00 UTC / July 29 - 7:00 AM CDT
During the above Maintenance Window our Data Center Provider will be performing maintenance on the management network firewall in our primary data center location.
There is no expected downtime or outage during this window. However, there may be an delay in processing infrastructure changes up to 15 minutes during the above window.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.
Start: 2024-06-17 22:00 UTC / June 17 - 5:00 PM CDT
End: 2024-06-18 02:00 UTC / June 17 - 9:00 PM CDT
Phase Two
Start: 2024-06-18 22:00 UTC / June 18 - 5:00 PM CDT
End: 2024-06-19 02:00 UTC / June 18 - 9:00 PM CDT
During the above Maintenance Window, our data center provider will be performing upgrades with core networking equipment. We expect brief interruptions to our services during the above window.
There may be brief interruptions to authentication with managed mail services during the above maintenance windows.
Effected Services
Managed Web Services
Managed Mail Services
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.
Start: 2024-05-29 10:00 UTC / May 29 - 5:00 AM CDT
End: 2024-05-29 14:00 UTC / May 29 - 9:00 AM CDT
During the above Maintenance Window, our data center provider will be performing upgrades on core switches. We expect brief interruptions to our services while traffic is re-routed. The duration of the interruptions may occur for 5-15 seconds during the above window.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.
Start: 2024-04-16 11:00 UTC / April 16 - 6:00 AM CDT
End: 2024-04-16 13:00 UTC / April 16 - 8:00 AM CDT
During the above Maintenance Window our Data Center Provider will be performing core network improvements in our primary data center locations.
There is no expected downtime or outage during this window. However, there may be an increase latency or a minor disruption in network traffic for 2-3 minutes.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.
We will be moving our Status Site to a new provider in the coming days. The URL will not be changing, but the design and the site content will be changing.
Starting at 10:39AM CDT on April 2, 2024, one of our monitoring systems detected an full system outage effecting Web and Mail Services for all of our own and client managed services.
Managed Web Hosting
Managed Mail Services
Mad Scientist Technologies Public Website & Services
After investigating the outage we have determined that the outage was localized to our local (Quincy) monitoring system. The outage was caused by an routing change by our local transit provider.
This outage only effected users on Adams Network/Adams Fiber between 10:39-10:52AM on April 2.
We apologize for this outage.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
At 6:50PM CDT on July 15, 2023 our monitoring system detected our mail server went offline. We are currently investigating the issue and will update this post with details.
Updates
6:50PM - Outage Start/Investigation Starts
6:55PM - Found Network Issue with Mail Server
7:05PM - Data Center Provider informed of unscheduled maintenance on host server
7:47PM - Data Center Provider informed us that the physical server that is running our mail service has failed. We are looking into alternatives for the mean time, we will update this post with additional information as we have access to it.
8:40PM - Monitoring system detected mail server back online, investigating.
8:45PM - Data Center provider informed node was recovered, we are continue to monitor the situation.
12:00AM - Minor System Maintenance, few minutes of downtime expected.
The outage has been fully resolved, if you are experiencing any problems, please feel free to contact us.
On January 28, 2023 at 11PM CST our Managed Web and Managed Mail Services went offline. The issue was caused by our data center provider.
We are currently investigating the root cause of this issue and will update this post with additional details, when and if those details become available.
We are still monitoring the situation, additional updates will be posted here and our twitter feed.
Timeline of Events
11:00PM CT - Monitoring Systems indicated outage
Investigation of issue
Found issue with Data Center Provider
11:10PM CT - Services Started coming back online
11:15PM CT - Services Restored
We are still waiting to hear from DC about issue.
This issue has been resolved as of 12:15AM CT Jan 29. This issue was caused by internal systems of our DC Provider.
If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.