We'll be performing switching and power maintenance this Sunday, from 04:00 GMT to 08:00 GMT. This is the last component of our switching and power refactor and will include:
- Replacing all PDUs older than a year with new models
- Completely recabling power in our cabinets to simplify maintenance and future equipment replacements
- Installing redundant power supplies for our switches
Pending confirmation from our ISP, we'll also be moving our uplinks to our provider's newer, higher-capacity, and more fault-tolerant switching fabric. This will remove various congestion issues and boost our burstability from 100Mbps to 1Gbps.
Note that we're going to do our best to avoid taking down any services. All of our racks have redundant power circuits and most of our servers have redundant power supplies, so we're hopeful that we can do this in stages to keep the interruption to a minimum. That said, we will take servers down if necessary to complete this maintenance on time.
As always, thanks for your patience as we make our On Demand services faster and more reliable.
