[M5Hosting] Network Maintenance on August 10th

[Michael J McCafferty]

Dear M5Hosting Customer,

        We will be performing a network upgrade on Aug 10th, 2008
starting at 02:00. We will be replacing our board routers with a pair of
brand new Juniper routers which can handle significant additional
growth. Additionally, we will be completing the incomplete VLAN
separation work.

        There will be a few brief interruptions as trunks are
established, routes are changed, and fail-over is tested. There will
also be one longer interruption (10 to 15 minutes) as servers are moved
to new VLANs. This work will be done by sub-net. If you have multiple
servers, and they are all on one sub-net, they will all be affected at
the same time. If you have servers on different sub-nets, they will be
affected at different times during the window.

        We will begin with sub-nets which will have an impact on fewer
customers and users first, and do the ones with the most impact later.
We expect to be done by 05:00 PDT, with an additional last hour of the
window for testing, troubleshooting and rollback if necessary. 

Window Start: Sunday 8/10/08 02:00 US/Pacific (GMT -7)
Window End: Sunday 8/10/08 06:00  US/Pacific (GMT -7)
Duration: Each customer may notice a few short interruptions, and one
longer interruption. Total impact for any one server should be less than
15min. But may be as long as 30 minutes.

        As always, your feedback on this message, the maintenance it
describes or anything else at all you might like to share with us is
greatly appreciated. 

Thank you !
Mike

        *** IMPORTANT: If you currently have a server with IP addresses
on more than one sub-net, you will need to renumber your addresses to be
all on one sub-net. If this applies to you and we have not contacted you
already, please contact support immediately.***

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Michael J. McCafferty
Principal, Security Engineer
M5 Hosting
http://www.m5hosting.com

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