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April showers bring … great servers!

April stats are in and it was another great month.

Standard HTML Servers:  100%

Standard WordPress Servers:  100% 

VHP Gen2:  100%

VHP Gen3:  100%

CloudSites:  

Isolated minor incidents.  99.996% availability for websites hosted on our Cloud.

Monitoring conducted by third-party website monitoring services Alertra.com and Monitis.com.

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March stats are in …

Another great month:

Standard HTML Servers:  100%

Standard WordPress Servers:  100% 

VHP (Hybrid):  100% *

VHP gen2:  100%

CloudSites:  

Isolated minor incidents.  99.98% availability for websites hosted on our Cloud.

*  Isolated incidents with individual websites due to an issue with a “phone home” plugin that could not talk to “home.”

Monitoring conducted by third-party website monitoring services Alertra.com and Monitis.com.

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Issue with a VHP server

We have an issue with a VHP server that is being investigated.  Some websites are generating errors.


Will have this fixed as soon as possible.

UPDATE:  Issues resolved.  Closely monitoring.

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Hardware Failure

The data center housing the HTML servers has experienced a routing hardware failure.


They have assured us they are working as quickly as possible to get the datacenter back online.


No impact on the server or websites expected.

UPDATE:  Connectivity has been restored. 

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February Stats are in …

Another great month:

Standard HTML Servers:  100% (maintenance excluded)

Standard WordPress Servers:  100% 

VHP (Hybrid):  100%

CloudSites:  

Isolated minor incidents.  99.96% availability for websites hosted on our Cloud.

Monitoring conducted by third-party website monitoring service Alertra.com.

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CloudFlare experiencing an issue

CloudFlare is experiencing “a network wide issue” that is impacting many of our servers.

UPDATE:  CloudFlare network issue has been resolved.


Details of the CloudFlare incident:

http://blog.cloudflare.com/


Posterous is having some problems.  If the link above does not work, try this:

https://support.cloudflare.com/entries/23294588-CloudFlare-Post-Mortem-from-Outage-on-March-1-2013

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Emergency Battery Replacement

celtic.hostmanage.com will be offline briefly for a RAID battery replacement.


UPDATE:  All done! 

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January stats are in …

Another month of exceptional uptime:

Standard HTML Servers:  100%

Standard WordPress Servers:  

One server experienced a 2 minute network interruption (at the datacenter level) — 2 minutes is the minimum monitoring period — for a 99.995% uptime.  All other WordPress servers had 100% uptime.

CloudSites:  

One 2 minute SQL cluster issue effected some websites.

Hybrid Servers:  100% uptime

Monitoring conducted by third-party website monitoring service Alertra.com.

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The End of the World?

The world is still here!  No earthquakes; no killer asteroids!

And we’re still here, too!  Now that we dodged that bullet, we’re looking forward to another great year hosting the most important people in the world — you!

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Be Safe!

TO all our friends on the East Coast:  Be Safe!

http://www.reddit.com/r/sandy/comments/1287u8/preparation_for_hurricane_sandy_xpost_rnyc/