Data Center Maintenance

Start: May 24, 2020 11:15 PM CDT (May 25, 2020 04:15 UTC) End: May 25, 2020 7:15 AM CDT (May 25, 2020 12:15 UTC)

Our Data Center Provider will be doing maintenance on the underlaying server that we are using, to resolve a potential issue with the system.

The expected downtime is currently unknown, but may last the full maintenance window. We expect to only see a minor interruption to services - including packet loss - while our system is moved to a new system.

Affected Services

  • Managed Web Services
  • Managed Mail Services
  • Our Online Services

We will update this post with additional information as we get more information.

If you have questions or concerns about this maintenance window, please feel free to contact us.

— Mad Scientist Technologies’ Team

Server Maintenance

RESCHEDULED

Start: July 28, 2019 at 11:30PM CDT
End: July 29, 2019 at 3:30AM CDT
Expected Downtime: Duration: 2.0 Hours

We will be performing a server upgrade during the above maintenance window.

We expect less than 10 minutes of downtime for the following services:

  • Managed Web Hosting Services
  • Managed Mail Services
    • Webmail Access
    • IMAP/SMTP Mail Access

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.

– Mad Scientist Technologies Infrastructure Team

CDT: Central Daylight Time

SSL Site Outage

Starting at 11:00PM on July 26, 2019, many of our online services became unavailable due to expired security certificates.

This issue was caused by a silently failing scheduled task that would normally renew the certificates automatically and a notification system failing to send warnings about the expiration of said certificates.

It came to our attention at 1:30AM July 27, 2019 that the services were unavailable, we remedy the issue by 1:40AM. We will be implementing additional safe guards to prevent this issue in the future.

We would like to deeply apologize for this problem.

Phase Two Maintenance

We have rescheduled phase two of server maintenance until the week of May 20 further notice. We will update this post with more details.

  • Mad Scientist Technologies Infrastructure Team

Schedule Maintenance Major Upgrades

Stage One - COMPLETED

Start: May 17, 2019 @ 11:00PM CDT (4:00AM UTC)
End: May 18, 2019 @ 6:00AM CDT (11:00AM UTC)
Estimated Downtime: 7.0 Hours

Maintenance Delayed

Due to last minutes schedule changes, Stage One Maintenance has been delayed 2 ½ hours.

Thus the new Maintenance window for stage one will be:

May 18 1:30AM - 8:00AM

Updates

  • 10:00A: Managed Web Services are fully back online.
  • 9:50A: Managed Mail Services has return to it regular system
  • 5:00A-9:00A: Managed Web Services continue to be worked on to bring system to a stable state. Services are running again.
  • 5:00A: Managed Web Services are mostly back online
  • 2:40A: We have our mail service on a backup system for the time being. Managed Web Services will be going offline shortly.
  • 1:30A: Maintenance beginning
  • 12:30A: Maintenance Delayed

Actual Downtime: 1.0 Hour

Stage Two - PENDING (Delayed?)

Start: May 18, 2019 @ 11:00PM CDT (4:00AM UTC)
End: May 19, 2019 @ 6:00AM CDT (11:00AM UTC)
Estimated Downtime: 7.0 Hours

UPDATE 5/18/19 @ 12PM

Stage Two may be delayed until Sunday, we are looking into the matter to see if it would be better to delay this Maintenance Window. We will update this post with more details later today (May 18 2019).


Affected Services

  • Managed Web Service
  • Managed Mail Service
    • Webmail Access
    • IMAP/SMTP Mail Access

We will be doing some major maintenance this weekend on all of our online services. We have divided this maintenance into two stages, due to the extensive maintenance that is required.

We expect up to 14 hours of possible downtime, however, we estimate the actual downtime will be around 4 hours for each service or a total of 8 hours.

We may not need the Stage Two Maintenance Window, however we wanted a fallback window just in case problems arised.

We will update this post during the maintenance and also on Twitter (@MadSciTechCloud).

If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.

—Mad Scientist Technologies’ Infrastructure Team

Server Maintenance

Start: March 24, 2019 @ 11:00PM
End: March 25, 2019 @ 4:00AM
Total Time: 5.0 Hours

UPDATE: Completed after a scheduling conflict

We will be performing a server upgrade during the above maintenance window.

We expect less than 10 minutes of downtime for the following services:

  • Managed Web Hosting Services
  • Managed Mail Services
    • Webmail Access
    • IMAP/SMTP Mail Access

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.

— Mad Scientist Technologies Infrastructure Team

DC Network Maintenance

Start: March 28, 2019 @ 9:00 PM CDT
End: March 29, 2019 @ 12:00 AM CDT
Total Time: 5 Hours

Our Data Center provider will be upgrading core networking equipment to improve performance.

We expect no impact to traffic or service availability during this maintenance window.

If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.

DC Network Maintenance

Start: 2018-09-20 9:00PM CDT
End: 2018-09-21 3:00AM CDT

Our Data Center Provider will be performing some network maintenance. This maintenance will be upgrading core networking equipment that will increase performance and reliability.

During the maintenance window, there may be some packet loss and increased latency, while traffic is re-routed.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact us.

Rescheduled from Sept 20, 5-11PM

DC Network Maintenance

Start: 2018-07-25 21:00 or 9:00PM CDT
End: 2018-07-26 03:00 or 3:00AM CDT

Our Data Center Provider will be performing some network maintenance. This maintenance will be upgrading core networking equipment that will increase performance and reliability.

During the maintenance window, there may be some packet loss and increased latency, while traffic is re-routed.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact us.

Server Maintenance

Start: 2018-06-30 at 16:00 CDT (4PM)
End: 2018-07-01 at 03:00 CDT (3AM) 5:30AM

COMPLETED Updates below

Starting on June 30, 2018 at 4PM we will be conducting some wide ranging service maintenance on the following services:

  • Managed Web Hosting Services
  • Managed Mail Hosting Services
  • Webmail Interface for Managed Mail Service
  • Implementation of new services

We expect minor downtime with this maintenance window, up to 15 minutes of downtime between 11PM - 1AM.

The webmail service will be unavailable completely during a two hour window in the maintenance window - will update post with the correct time.

Web Hosting and Mail Service should only be unavailable briefly.

If you have questions or concerns about this maintenance window, please feel free to reach out.


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Updates

Webmail Upgrade

  • Downtime Start @ 7:00PM
  • Upgrade Completed @ 7:30PM
  • Still Down @ 8:00PM
  • Service Upgrade Complete @ 8:30PM

Server Reboots

  • Managed Web Services Reboot @ 4:30A
  • Managed Mail Services Reboot @ 5:00A

All services are back up and running, better than ever. We will be scheduling another maintenance window in the near future to complete some more work on a upcoming project.

If you have problems or concerns, please feel free to reach to us.