[M5Hosting] DATE CORRECTION: Network Maintenance Announcement - Sunday Morning (US/Pacific Time)

[Michael J McCafferty]

M5 Hosting Customer,

	The announcement sent a moment ago contained an error. The maintenance
will take about 5 hours. The maintenance will end at 6am on the same day
it is to start.

Window Start: Sunday 5/17/09 01:00 PDT
Window End: Sunday 5/17/09 06:00 PDT

Thank you,
Mike

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 04:26 -0700, Michael J McCafferty wrote:
> Dear M5hosting Customer,
> 
> 	We will be performing some work during our next regular Network
> Maintenance Window which may impact you.
> 	Our network infrastructure has grown in capacity and performance over
> the last few years, but also in physical size. We have acquired new
> additional cage space at our primary data center facility. This weekend,
> we are moving our network infrastructure in to this new cage space where
> there is plenty of room for our current network infrastructure and
> upgrades which are planned over the next year. The new cage also has
> room for several hundred more servers.
> 	The move will take place after 1am PDT on Sunday morning, May 17th. We
> will take down the redundant half of the network, physically move it to
> the new location, transfer functionality to the network in the new
> location, then move the second half and restore full redundancy. This
> procedure will ensure a minimal interruption. However, PremiumNet
> customers may notice a few momentary pauses as the HSRP and VRRP and STP
> protocols do their jobs.
> 	There will be a greater impact on ValueNet as BGP does it's job,
> inbound traffic may not be routed properly on it way to us while routes
> are updated out on the Internet. It may take several minutes for route
> changes to fully propagate and stabilize across the Internet. Some
> locations on the Internet may have difficulty reaching servers hosted on
> ValueNet for several minutes. Other locations will not be impacted.
> 
> 
> Window Start: Sunday 5/17/09 01:00 PDT
> Window End: Sunday 7/6/08 06:00 PDT
> Impact: Each customer may notice a few short interruptions. PremiumNet
> customers may be impacted for seconds, while ValueNet customers may be
> affected by sub-optimal routing for several minutes.
> 
> 	As always, we appreciate your feedback regarding this email, or the
> work it describes. That thought you just had a moment ago... care to
> share it with us? Drop us a line.
> 
> Thank you!
> Mike
> 
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