Network Status News & Information

This email is to alert you regarding maintenance that will be performed on Cogent network:

Start time: 2:00 am central 9/16/2022
End time: 5:00 am central 9/16/2022
Expected Outage/Downtime: 45-60 minutes

The purpose of this work is to apply and activate software module upgrades on code running on the edge routers per the manufacturer's recommendations.

During this maintenance window, you may experience up to two brief interruptions in service while they complete the maintenance activities. However, due to the complexity of the work, your downtime may be longer. Customers may also see some re-convergence during the maintenance window. Customers may experience latency and packet loss intermittently throughout the window.

Cogent network operations engineers closely monitor the work and will do everything possible to minimize any inconvenience to you. If you have any problems with your connection after this time, please open a ticket with our support.

We appreciate your patience during this work.

We have scheduled a planned maintenance for August 22, 2022. During this time, major software upgrades will be implemented; downtime will occur. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

We have scheduled a planned maintenance for August 22, 2022. During this time, major software upgrades will be implemented; downtime will occur. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

We have scheduled a planned maintenance for January 15, 2022. This is a follow-up to the outage that occurred earlier this week; downtime is expected. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

We are currently experience a server outage on Mahal and are investigating; unfortunately, we do not have ETA on service renewal.

While we are hoping to get this machine back online as soon as possible, from a preliminary investigation a fix might take some time. If it's absolutely vital for service to be restored for your hosting, we can possibly attempt to restore your account to a different server. NOTE: There will be some data loss from your last backup to service outage. Also, your nameservers will be changed which will require propagation.

We will keep you informed and do apologize for the downtime, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

UPDATE: Service should be restored. However, we will be scheduling a follow-up maintenance on Saturday, January 15, 2022. Downtime is to be expected. As usual, after events like this or before maintenance windows, we recommend to always create and store your own backups of your account on your personal computer. If you have any questions, please let us know; we are always happy to help.

We have scheduled a planned maintenance for March 10, 2021. During this time, software upgrades will be implemented along with solutions to server issues; downtime will most likely occur but kept as brief as possible. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

We have scheduled a planned maintenance for March 10, 2021. During this time, software upgrades will be implemented along with solutions to server issues; downtime will most likely occur but kept as brief as possible. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

We have scheduled a planned maintenance for March 2, 2021 on the Unique Server. During this time, issues relating to recent outages will be addressed and the server will be restarted; downtime will occur. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

This is to alert you regarding maintenance that will be performed on Cogent’s network:

Start time: 01:00 AM (EST) 03/16/2020
End time: 04:00 AM (EST) 03/16/2020
Expected outage/downtime: 45-60 minutes

The purpose of this work is to apply and activate software module upgrades on code running on the edge routers per the manufacturer's recommendations. During this maintenance window, you may experience up to two brief interruptions in service while they complete the maintenance activities. However, due to the complexity of the work, your downtime may be longer. Customers may also see some re-convergence during the maintenance window. Customers may experience latency and packet loss intermittently throughout the window.

Over the days following this initial upgrade, Cogent will be upgrading code on redundant upstream routers. Customers may experience high latency, re-convergence and/or suboptimal routing which may vary during this window. Cogent’s network operations engineers will closely monitor the work and will do everything possible to minimize any inconvenience to you. If you have any problems with your connection after this time, please open a ticket with our support.

We have scheduled a planned maintenance for December 4, 2019 on the Mahal Server. During this time, software upgrades will be implemented to the server along with a continued performance check; downtime will occur. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

We have received notification that our datacenter is consolidating their infrastructure and servers that are located in their older datacenter will need to be physically moved to their newer datacenter. This means that the Unique server will need to be gracefully shutdown, physically moved, reassigned new IPs, and reconfigured with the new IPs. The planned physical server relocation will take place on:

Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Starting at 7:00AM PDT

We are planning for significant downtime on the day listed above. If you have a site and/or email that absolutely can NOT have any downtime, please let us know right away and we can manually transfer your account ahead of time to a different server already located in their new datacenter with no downtime.

If there are any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

UPDATE: Services should now be tentatively coming back online. However, please note that we are still making changes on the backend and downtime can still occur.

The main server IP has changed to the following:
23.237.150.58

If you don't see your site online, you could have your DNS results still cached on your computer. You can either wait for the cached to clear by itself or clear it manually to speed up the process. For those that don't use our nameservers, please update your A entries for your domain. For those that connect directly to the server using an IP, please use the one above. If you have a dedicated IP, a new one will be assigned to you as soon as possible.

If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

UPDATE: We are now closing this network issue. Please contact us if you have any issues with your site.

We are investigating an outage on this server. Will update this report as more information becomes available.

UPDATE: Server's hardware has failed. The server will need to be replaced and we are currently working on this.

UPDATE: Server is back online but checking system for any issues.

UPDATE: Check complete. Closing outage.

Due to some maintenance work to improve the quality of the Cogent Network, your service(s) will be interrupted during the following maintenance window:

Start time: 12:00 AM CST 1/25/2019
End time: 06:00 AM CST 1/25/2019
Expected Outage/Downtime: 45-60 minutes

The interruption to your service should not exceed 60 minutes.

Cogent's network operations engineers will closely monitor the work and will do everything possible to minimize any inconvenience to you. If you have any problems with your connection after this time, please open a ticket with our support department.

We have scheduled a planned maintenance for January 10, 2019. During this time, software upgrades will be implemented to the server and downtime could occur. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

We have scheduled a planned maintenance for January 10, 2019. During this time, software upgrades will be implemented to the server and downtime could occur. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

A planned maintenance has been scheduled for September 27, 2017. During this time, we will be doing software upgrades to the server and downtime could occur. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

A planned maintenance has been scheduled for September 27, 2017. During this time, we will be doing software upgrades to the server and downtime could occur. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

A planned maintenance has been scheduled for April 26-27, 2017. During this time, we will be doing major software upgrades to the server and downtime could occur. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

A planned maintenance has been scheduled for April 26-27, 2017. During this time, we will be doing major software upgrades to the server and downtime could occur. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

A planned maintenance has been scheduled for January 16, 2017. During this time, we will be doing major software upgrades to the server and downtime could occur. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

We would like to inform you for the following maintenance from our datacenter:

Start time: 12:00 am central 10/25/2016
End time: 4:00 am central 10/25/2016
Expected Outage/Downtime: up to 60 minutes

The purpose of this work is network architecture upgrade of our provider at node site - fiber migration for future capacity augment. During this maintenance window, you will experience one or more brief interruptions in service while we complete the maintenance activities; the interruptions are expected to last less than 60 minutes total. However, due to the complexity of the work, your downtime may be longer. Customers may also see some reconvergence during the maintenance window.

We have noticed of an outage and are currently investigating.

UPDATE: Server is crashing at startup. Possible issue with the kernel or a hardware issue.

UPDATE: Extended downtime is likely. If the uptime of your website is imperative, we can restore your account from a backup to a different server right away, in order to do this please change your nameservers to NS3.BIHIRA and NS4.BIHIRA.COM and open a support ticket.

UPDATE: Thank you for your patience. The motherboard was replaced and server came back online.

One of the hard drives in the RAID array has failed and we will need to bring down the server in order to replace it.

UPDATE: Server is bieng brought down to replace hard drive.

UPDATE: Hard drive has been replaced and RAID array is rebuilding.

We noticed this morning one of the hard drives in our RAID array is failing and will need to bring down the server in order to replace it.

UPDATE: Hard drive has been replaced and the RAID array is rebuilding.

We are scheduling an extended planned maintenance for October 28, 2015 5:00 PM PST - October 29, 2015 3:00 AM PST.

We are scheduling an extended planned maintenance for October 28, 2015 5:00 PM PST - October 29, 2015 3:00 AM PST.

We are scheduling an extended planned maintenance for October 28, 2015 5:00 PM PST - October 29, 2015 3:00 AM PST.

A planned maintenance has been scheduled for October 26, 2015; we will be doing software upgrades to the server. Please be aware that some intermittent downtime could occur, which will be kept to a minimum as much as possible; we apologize for any inconvenience this planned maintenance may cause. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

A planned maintenance has been scheduled for October 26, 2015; we will be doing software upgrades to the server. Please be aware that some intermittent downtime could occur, which will be kept to a minimum as much as possible; we apologize for any inconvenience this planned maintenance may cause. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

A planned maintenance has been scheduled for October 26, 2015; we will be doing software upgrades to the server. Please be aware that some intermittent downtime could occur, which will be kept to a minimum as much as possible; we apologize for any inconvenience this planned maintenance may cause. As usual, we always recommend to take the time before the planned maintenance to ensure your personal backups are up-to-date. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are always happy to help.

Unique has suffered a catastrophic crash. The operating system will need to be reinstalled, software reinstalled, and backups restored. Unfortuanately, this process can take a few days; we sincerely apologize for this issue and inconvenience it has caused.

If you have a mission critical site and it needs to be up, please open a support ticket and we will restore your account on another server. NOTE: You will need to change nameservers to do this, which has a propagation period.

Please follow our progress at: https://www.bihira.com/whmcompletesolution/serverstatus.php?view=open


UPDATE - Malfunctioning hardware bieng replaced.

UPDATE - Hardware replaced. Reconfiguring 3ware settings.

UPDATE - Operating system bieng installed.

UPDATE - Operating installed. Software bieng installed.

UPDATE - CloudLinux and cPanel installed.

UPDATE - cPanel now bieng configured.

UPDATE - Account restoration in process, hopefully, everyone should be restored by tomorrow.

UPDATE - Accounts restored. If there is anything wrong with your account, please open a support ticket.

A serious vulnerability was recently found in bash and an emergecny patch was applied and the server was rebooted to fix the vulnerability. However, during the reboot process, the operating system found some errors in the filesystem and is now running a forced check. the filesystem check is taking longer than expected and is the current reason for the continued outage.

UPDATE: Sites should now be back online.

Unfortunately, the Unique hard drive raid array has failed; the hard drives will need to be replaced, the operating system and software reinstalled, and backups restored. We do apologize for this issue and inconvenience it has caused.

You can follow our progress at the link below.

https://www.bihira.com/whmcompletesolution/networkissues.php

Update - Restoration is taking place.

Update - Our bare-metal restore has failed; we will now attempt a manual restore. Due to the length of this downtime, all members on this server may request credit once the server is back online.

Update - Site are coming back online (one by one).

Update - All websites should now be online. We are reconfiguring the servers settings.

Update - Everything should be back to normal. Please open a support ticket if you are still experiencing a problem.

A secondary hard drive on the Mahal server is failing and we are in the process of replacing the hard drive. During this time access to the server might be slower than normal and small intermittent outages could occur. We deeply apologize for this and are working quickly as possible to resolve this issue.

You can follow our progress at the link below.

https://www.bihira.com/whmcompletesolution/networkissues.php

Update - Data on the hard drive is being moved to a different hard drive.

Update - All data has been moved off the failing hard drive. Preparing new drive.

Update - Drive prepared; powering down server to physically install new drive and remove old drive.

Update - New drive was installed. We are now configuring the new drive and running test.

Update - All testing has been completed and new drive is operational. If there are any issues with your web hosting account, please contact us.