[M5Hosting] Network Maintenance Window Tonight

[Michael J McCafferty]

Dear M5Hosting Customer,

    We will be returning our network systems to normal fully redundant  
operating status tonight. Once this is done we will test the fail-over  
and fault-tolerance. This may cause brief (1 to 15 second) pauses on  
the network. The purpose is to ensure that all systems perform as  
intended.
    After the power incident yesterday, the M5Hosting "PremiumNet"  
network systems performed in an unexpected manner. All systems have  
been previously tested and performed fail-over flawlessly. This  
testing to take place tonight is to make sure that this is still the  
case, given the unexpected behavior yesterday. The unexpected behavior  
yesterday took place between our border routers and AIS's routers  
which face us when power was restored. Performing a test of the  
fail-over systems tonight will help determine if the network issues  
were due to the effects of the abrupt power interruption on the  
network devices, or a configuration of the network devices. Both M5  
and AIS Network Engineers will be on hand for this work.
    The M5Hosting "ValueNet" was not affected once power was restored,  
is running in normal operational status and should not be affected by  
tonights testing.
    The vast majority of our customers are on "PremiumNet". If you do  
not know which you are on, you are most likely on PremiumNet.

Window Start: Friday March 20, 2009 02:00 US/Pacific (GMT -7)
Window End: Friday March 20, 2009 04:00  US/Pacific (GMT -7)
Duration: Customers on M5Hosting's "PremiumNet" may notice a few very  
brief interruptions of a few seconds in length.

    As always, I want to hear from you regarding this email, and how  
we are doing... or anything at all.

Thank you !
Mike

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Michael J. McCafferty
Principal Engineer
M5 Hosting
877-344-HOST x501 Voice
http://www.m5hosting.com
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