On November 21, 2016 starting around 1:00AM CST we will be doing a small bit of regular maintenance on our servers.
The Follwing Services will be Affected
We expect no more than five (5) minutes of downtime for this maintenance window.
If you have questions, please feel free to contact us.
On October 23, 2016 starting at 11:00PM, we will be performing some regular server maintenance on the following services:
We expect only a short bit of downtime, approximately five minutes or less.
This maintenance window is: October 23 at 23:00 - October 24 at 01:00.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Completed at 3:00 AM on October 24, 2016.
The maintenance over run was due to a required kernel upgrade. Total downtime for the following services:
Some of our managed mail clients will have there DKIM records and signing key updated to stronger encryption algorithms. This is being done to improve mail delivery. We expect less than a minute of downtime for this change.
We expect this change to go into affect between 22:00 - 23:00 on October 18, 2016.
Affected Services
This is part of the DMARC project.
Web Server Successfully Upgraded on Saturday, August 27, 2016 at 1:30AM. ✔️
Due to a drastic change in availability, this project has been re-scheduled for this weekend - August 26-29
This is a tentative schedule, actual downtime, interruptions, and outage start/end times will be posted before the event.
We will post updates about this upgrade, here on our status site and also on our Twitter feed.
If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.
– Mad Scientist Technologies Internetworking and Infrastructure Team
Between August 24-27 we will be upgrading our primary web server to increase the system memory. This will improve the system’s performance and provide better speed for all managed websites.
Our current timeline for this upgrade is as follows:
Update 8/12 3:40PM: Webmail Maintenance Completed
We will be doing some maintenance on our webmail interface (http://mail.services.madscitech.net) starting on August 12, 2016 at 2:00PM.
We expect this maintenance to take approximately 1 Hour to complete. There will be some periods of unavailability as we complete the maintenance.
This maintenance will not affect the delivery of mail to your account.
Affected Services
Our company website has finally made the move to HTTPS!
After a few weeks of planning, we have turned on full encryption on our own website.
Now all of your communications between your device and our website is encrypted. 1
This is only the first step in many bigger changes coming down the pipeline. Soon you will be able to manage your entire account via our website; billing, service management, appointments and more.
We’re so excited to show you what’s coming…
This assumes that your computer is not infected with some nasty spyware or virus. ↩︎
Update: As of July 22, 2016 all Managed Web Presence Properties’ have been migrated to our new transactional email service. We only have a few more changes before our DMARC, DKIM, and SPF Rollout will change to the spam and unauthorized mail monitoring process.
Original: Starting on July 16, 2016, we are moving our Managed Web Presence Properties’ transactional email processing, to an enterprise class email service.
We are doing this as part of our DMARC, DKIM, and SPF rollout to improve email quality and cut down on spamming/spoofing of email addresses.
The current plan is to rollout this change over the course of the week of July 17.
This change will not affect your normal email service (Managed Mail Service). This change is only for the email sent by your website or web application.
What is Transactional Email: Transactional email is email that a website/web application sends to a user of the website. Examples of transactional emails are; Order Confirmations, Password Reset, Welcome Emails, etc.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Completed: After a late start, the maintenance has been completed successfully.
On July 17, 2016 starting at 1:00AM CDT we will be performing regular system maintenance on our Web and Mail Servers. We expect a few minutes of downtime, so that our servers can reboot.
Services Affected
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.
Regular Scheduled and Preventive Maintenance
On June 25, 2016 we have closed our Los Angeles Data Center after six years of service. Now the majority of our web services will be provided from our New York Data Center.
We would like to thank the staff at our Los Angeles Data Center for the help they have provided to us over the years.
Why the change
We decided to change our data center providers for many different reasons, the main reason is to provide our clients the best possible service. Some of the other choices include:
This change will allow us to provide new and exciting opportunities for our clients.
We will be announcing some exciting news in the coming months because of these changes - keep an look out for it.
What is Affected?
This change has required us to migrate all our Managed Services and web properties to the new infrastructure. We have been working on this migration for the last five months.
We’re happy to announce that the migration was 100% successful.
Now all of our clients’ services are running upon our new and better infrastructure - providing faster services to all.
I have questions
With any type of change, there will also be questions and concerns. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us.
– Mad Scientist Technologies’ Internetworking and Infrastructure Team
Status: Completed ✓ ✓ ✓
UPDATE June 24, 2016: MadSciTech.com has been successfully moved/migrated to our new and faster web server (NYC Data Center).
We’re still looking for bugs or problems, but everything looks good! If you spot an issue, please feel free to contact us.
UPDATE June 23, 2016: We have over come the blocker. We are in the process of transferring DNS and checking things out before releasing the floodgates to the new server. We’ll update this post when we have completed the move.
Estimated Time: 3 Hours (2:30AM CT).
Starting May 25, 2016 at 7:00AM, we will begin the long process of moving our own web properties to our new server (NYC Data Center). We expect some minor downtime with the following services:
We also expected broken links and bad redirections for parts of the MadSciTech.com website. We should have the majority of these problems corrected shortly after the DNS switched to the new server.
If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact us.
Mail: Staff |*| MadSciTech |.| com
We have ran into a problem during the transferring to the new server, which is currently blocking us from continuing the process. We are currently looking into the problem and will update this post with the latest information, when it comes avaiable.
Because of this blocker the site is still hosted on our old server (LA Data Center) and has data entry disabled. This means that our current public site is unable to provide the following functionality:
As mentioned, we are attempting to resolve this blocker as fast as possible to finish the move.
Last Updated: 8:00AM, June 24