Data Center Provider Firewall Maintenance

Maintenance Window:

  • Start: 2024-07-29 10:00 UTC / July 29 - 5:00 AM CDT
  • End: 2024-07-29 12:00 UTC / July 29 - 7:00 AM CDT

During the above Maintenance Window our Data Center Provider will be performing maintenance on the management network firewall in our primary data center location.

There is no expected downtime or outage during this window. However, there may be an delay in processing infrastructure changes up to 15 minutes during the above window.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.

— Mad Scientist Technologies Infrastructure Team

Data Center Network Upgrades - June 17/18, 2024

Maintenance Windows:

Phase One

  • Start: 2024-06-17 22:00 UTC / June 17 - 5:00 PM CDT
  • End: 2024-06-18 02:00 UTC / June 17 - 9:00 PM CDT

Phase Two

  • Start: 2024-06-18 22:00 UTC / June 18 - 5:00 PM CDT
  • End: 2024-06-19 02:00 UTC / June 18 - 9:00 PM CDT

During the above Maintenance Window, our data center provider will be performing upgrades with core networking equipment. We expect brief interruptions to our services during the above window.

There may be brief interruptions to authentication with managed mail services during the above maintenance windows.

Effected Services

  • Managed Web Services
  • Managed Mail Services

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.

— Mad Scientist Technologies Infrastructure Team

Data Center Network Maintenance - 2024-05-29

Maintenance Windows:

  • Start: 2024-05-29 10:00 UTC / May 29 - 5:00 AM CDT
  • End: 2024-05-29 14:00 UTC / May 29 - 9:00 AM CDT

During the above Maintenance Window, our data center provider will be performing upgrades on core switches. We expect brief interruptions to our services while traffic is re-routed. The duration of the interruptions may occur for 5-15 seconds during the above window.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.

— Mad Scientist Technologies Infrastructure Team

Data Center Maintenance Window for 2024-04-16

Maintenance Window:

  • Start: 2024-04-16 11:00 UTC / April 16 - 6:00 AM CDT
  • End: 2024-04-16 13:00 UTC / April 16 - 8:00 AM CDT

During the above Maintenance Window our Data Center Provider will be performing core network improvements in our primary data center locations.

There is no expected downtime or outage during this window. However, there may be an increase latency or a minor disruption in network traffic for 2-3 minutes.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.

— Mad Scientist Technologies Infrastructure Team

April 2, 2024 Brief Outage

Starting at 10:39AM CDT on April 2, 2024, one of our monitoring systems detected an full system outage effecting Web and Mail Services for all of our own and client managed services.

  • Managed Web Hosting
  • Managed Mail Services
  • Mad Scientist Technologies Public Website & Services

After investigating the outage we have determined that the outage was localized to our local (Quincy) monitoring system. The outage was caused by an routing change by our local transit provider.

This outage only effected users on Adams Network/Adams Fiber between 10:39-10:52AM on April 2.

We apologize for this outage.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

— Mad Scientist Technologies Team

Mail Service Outage

At 6:50PM CDT on July 15, 2023 our monitoring system detected our mail server went offline. We are currently investigating the issue and will update this post with details.

Updates

  • 6:50PM - Outage Start/Investigation Starts
  • 6:55PM - Found Network Issue with Mail Server
  • 7:05PM - Data Center Provider informed of unscheduled maintenance on host server
  • 7:47PM - Data Center Provider informed us that the physical server that is running our mail service has failed.
    We are looking into alternatives for the mean time, we will update this post with additional information as we have access to it.
  • 8:40PM - Monitoring system detected mail server back online, investigating.
  • 8:45PM - Data Center provider informed node was recovered, we are continue to monitor the situation.
  • 12:00AM - Minor System Maintenance, few minutes of downtime expected.

The outage has been fully resolved, if you are experiencing any problems, please feel free to contact us.

Service Outage - Jan 28 2023

On January 28, 2023 at 11PM CST our Managed Web and Managed Mail Services went offline. The issue was caused by our data center provider.

We are currently investigating the root cause of this issue and will update this post with additional details, when and if those details become available.

We are still monitoring the situation, additional updates will be posted here and our twitter feed.

Timeline of Events

  • 11:00PM CT - Monitoring Systems indicated outage
    • Investigation of issue
    • Found issue with Data Center Provider
  • 11:10PM CT - Services Started coming back online
  • 11:15PM CT - Services Restored

We are still waiting to hear from DC about issue.

This issue has been resolved as of 12:15AM CT Jan 29. This issue was caused by internal systems of our DC Provider.

If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.

— Mad Scientist Technologies Team

DC Maintenance Window

Start: 2023-01-11 @ 18:00 CST
End: 2023-01-11 @ 22:00 CST

Our data center provider will be conducting core network upgrade and maintenance during the above window. Our Managed Web and Mail Service will experience some packet loss and downtime during this period. We expect only a few minutes of downtime.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

— Mad Scientist Technologies Team

Maintenance Window (Rescheduled)

Start: 2022-08-19 @ 12:01AM CDT
End: 2022-08-19 @ 1:00AM CDT

We will be performing server maintenance on the following services:

  • Managed Web Platform
  • Managed Mail Service

We expect no more than ten (10) minutes of downtime with this maintenance window.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.