On Tuesday 16th February we’re going to install new firewalls in our Manchester data centre. While we do the work we’ll be operating all services through our Derby site and turn off Manchester.
This work follows on from our network upgrades in Derby last week and will bring our network fully up-to-date.We’ll be starting mid morning (around 10) and should be finished by early afternoon.
What we’re doing
We’re upgrading our remaining Cisco PIX firewalls to shiny new Cisco ASAs.
We’re setting up a backup link between our sites to keep your data safe.
And finally we’ll upgrade our Manchester backup database servers to make sure they can always keep up with the load.
Technical details
Our Manchester site is on the 217.20.43.96/27 network (217.20.43.96 through to 217.20.43.127), whilst we do the work you won’t be able to reach any servers running on these addresses. Our Derby site will be up and working fine on the 89.248.48.192/27 network (IP addresses 89.248.48.192 to 89.248.48.223).
This afternoon we’ll take the Manchester servers out of service by removing the DNS records, we’ll then change them back once everything is tested and finished.
If you login to any of our products you can see which site you’re currently using, our Manchester servers always have a number 3 near the start such as textburst3.mediaburst.co.uk, Derby uses a 3 instead.
If you have any questions give us a call on 0845 050 0000 or drop us an email.