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Network Status
This page lists server issues and outages specific to ChelseaData.ca domains and services.
• Our network provider (LFC Hosting) also maintains a Status page which may indicate other items affecting ChelseaData.ca.
• General Internet Traffic Report
Wednesday, June 29, 2005 My @Home.calm development server (also known as adojji.org) has not been available for the last 2 days because of some ISP problems. Bell Canada has pulled the plug on all iStop DSL accounts; all I have is dial-up for a couple of days.
Wednesday, April 13, 2005 The "old" ChelseaData.ca server at 66.11.168.133 was shut down today. Thank you, Sparky7.
Sunday, March 20, 2005 Notification: the server at 66.11.168.133 will be shut down soon. Most applications have been migrated to the new server.
Monday, January 3, 2005 - 12:15pm dBASE applications at LFC Hosting are operating normally - apparently an IIS permissions issue...
Friday, December 24, 2004 - 12:15pm dBASE applications at LFC Hosting are not responding. A ticket has been raised with the hosting provider. The old location ( 66.11.168.133 ) is working fine; all applications can be accessed there.
Saturday, December 4, 2004 - 11:00am Reconfiguring domain and client services now that the domain is split between new and old locations.
Friday, December 3, 2004 - 3:00pm Bell Canada has reconnected iStop.com and discussions are underway to resolve the contractual issues.
Thursday, December 2, 2004 - 5:30pm - 11:00pm Working with a 26.4 kbps dialup connection, all of our network admin staff work at full speed to get ChelseaData.ca working at the new location.
Thursday, December 2, 2004 - 11:45am A contract dispute between Bell Canada and my network provider (link above) resulted in the total disappearance of ChelseaData.ca. Clients with their own domains are unaffected as they have been moved to a new provider already.
Sunday, May 30, 2004 - 10:00 - 10:45pm During weekly server maintenance, a failed hard drive was discovered - luckily, there's disk mirroring. Several reboots required to cold-swap some items. No lost data!
Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 6:15pm Server maintenance requiring several reboots.
Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 9:00pm Emergency mail server maintenance going on this evening - the Outbox is filling up with large emails destined for hotmail.com, which are not being accepted for various reasons - timeouts, winsock errors. Small emails are going through to hotmail.com without problems.
Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 5:30pm As a result of increased virus activity, any incoming e-mail with an executable attachment will be rejected by the mail server.
Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 3:25pm to 11:25pm. There appear to be some problems at our upstream provider.
Sunday, November 30, 2003 - upgrading primary server 9:00pm to 10:00pm. Sorry for any minor disruptions.
Saturday, October 18, 2003 - running from backup server (Sparky5) 8:45pm to 9:15pm while primary server (Sparky7) gets a new power supply. Sorry for any minor disruptions.
Friday, September 12, 2003 - all servers down from 12:30pm to 5:15pm. Cause: another SDSL customer caused network problems for our provider; the entire block was shut down until the problem was corrected.
Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 9:30am - all servers were down since Thursday at 4:10pm as a result of power outages to Eastern Canada and US region. Continuing disruptions may occur for up to a week(? - according to media reports) as a result of rolling power blackouts.
Saturday, July 12, 2003 - 5:33pm - our network provider appears to have dealt with the problem - logs show activity starting around 2:30pm.
Saturday, July 12, 2003 - 2:10pm - our network provider has found a problem and is dealing with it - sorry that's all the info I have at this time.
Friday, July 11, 2003 - our network provider is still having problems; spotty connectivity this evening on all services. I came downtown at 11:30pm to check things out - server is up and running normally but not much happening on the wire... please check the iStop.com network status page for any new developments.
Wednesday, July 9, 2003 - our network provider has been having DoS attack problems for the last several days which may have interfered with ChelseaData.ca connectivity; please see their network status page for details.
Friday, April 25, 2003 - Upcoming event: The CCA 2002 Conference website will be shut down on May 11, 2003.
Tuesday, April 15, 2003 - all connectivity lost between 4:15pm and 5:10pm. According to my network provider's status page, a Bell/Nexxia switch failure in Toronto brought everything of theirs (and ours) to a screeching halt.
Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 6:40pm - I am now using a web server module that should result in faster page loading. Please let me know if it causes any undesired results.
Sunday, February 23, 2003 - all connectivity lost between 7:01am and 11:53am. According to my network provider's status page, there was some maintenance scheduled for 5-6am today. Apparently, an SDSL firmware upgrade did not go as planned.
Monday, January 20, 2003 - NEW server brought on-line between 7:00pm and 7:30pm. Please welcome SPARKY7 to the family of ChelseaData.ca servers.
Sunday, January 5, 2003 - several minor disruptions from 8:00pm to 9:00pm. Cause: network reconfiguration to improve speed.
Saturday, December 21, 2002 - all servers down from 9:30pm to 9:40pm. Cause: installing new switch and reconfiguring network behind it.
Saturday, December 14, 2002 - FTP server down from 12:30pm to 4:45pm. Cause: server admin was overstimulated by coffee and "lost" the FTP server instance
Saturday, December 14, 2002 - several reboots required from 9:45am to 11:05am. Cause: terminal emulation software (copyright 1989!) to manage router locks up machine.
Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - planned service disruption - between 11:45am and 12:45pm due to server move from a co-location room to a new location which provides 24/7 access, graciously provided by one of our clients, the Canadian Counselling Association.
Wednesday, November 6, 2002 - another service disruption - down this evening between 8:10pm and 8:30pm due to server co-location room move.
Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - service disruption due to IP renumbering taking place October 16 to 18, 2002. Temporarily re-routing to my backup server at home.
Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - FTP services were down from 11:15am to 1:00pm - FTP server upgrade (and almost total reconfiguration required).
Friday, June 14, 2002 - our upstream network provider has been having problems for the last several weeks which have interfered with ChelseaData.ca connectivity; please see their network status page for details. Congestion problems are currently unresolved.
Wednesday, June 5, 2002 - all servers down from 1:48pm to 2:37pm. Cause: loose connection created during reboot.
Thursday, April 25, 2002 - newsgroup server will stop functioning on May 1, 2002.
Tuesday, March 26, 2002 - web server was down from 2:20pm until 2:30pm. Cause: upgrade Apache server to 1.3.24.
Monday, March 4, 2002 - all servers were down from 12:34am until 11:14pm. Cause: unknown
Note: This page is no longer being maintained - it is here for historical reference only. Until 2005, I ran my own server hardware and this page was used for communicating with clients and visitors regarding service disruptions and other events. Sunday, February 24, 2002 - all servers were down from 11:30am until 2:30pm. Cause: Server room maintenance.
Wednesday, December 12, 2001 - server was down from 3:05pm until 4:55pm. Cause: another server room power blow-out. My network provider will be upgrading the power circuitry.
Thursday, November 29, 2001 - our network provider was experiencing router problems this morning between 9:30am and 11:30am. On their behalf, sorry for any problems.
Thursday, October 11, 2001 - server move is almost done. My apologies to anyone who suffered any problems during the move - DSL was especially problematic for the last week, so redirections to the new server weren't even working.
Friday, October 5, 2001 - anyone processing e-mail got an error message from 6:30pm yesterday until 2:15pm. Cause: switching servers, forgot to register e-mail dll on the back-up server.
Saturday, September 15, 2001 - server was down from 3:30pm until 5:40pm. Cause: DSL modem would not synchronize with ISP; possible interference with other components. I am in the process of moving my server into a "real" server room, so these DSL problems will (hopefully) soon be a thing of the past.
Wednesday, August 29, 2001 - server was down from 10:00am until 10:40am. Cause: similar to previous item - rebooting router/firewall allowed reconnection.
Friday, August 10, 2001 - server was down from 5:30pm until 8:20pm. Cause: currently unresolved - server was functioning locally; possibly router, firewall, DSL modem or Bell/Nexxia network. I will be monitoring my hardware components a little closer until I track it down.
Thursday, July 19, 2001 - server was down from 5:30am until 6:40am. Cause: local Hydro transformer failure.
Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - another memory upgrade for primary server (that's 512MB in case you're counting); CPU fan cleaning; backup server performed admirably all the while
Saturday, May 26, 2001 - memory upgrade
Saturday, May 12, 2001 - server was down from 3:15pm until 5:30pm. Cause: power failure (UPS is on my list of things to get)
Wednesday, April 25, 2001 - Sometime in the future, I will look back to early 2001 and say to myself 'Ah, the good old days when there were hardly any problems...' . Since I've installed the hardware router/firewall, the server has required much less rebooting. Of course, the ADSL portion of the network still goes down once in while, but thanks to auto-reconnect, it doesn't take my server with it!
Tuesday, April 24, 2001 - server was down from 6:20pm until 6:40pm. Cause: OS instability AKA the blue screen of death
Sunday, March 18, 2001 - server was down from 5:00pm until 6:30pm. Cause: OS instability AKA the blue screen of death
Friday, February 16, 2001 - server was down from 8:50pm until 9:30pm. Cause: Router / firewall upgrade (this time - it worked!)
Friday, February 9, 2001 - server was down from 6:15pm until 7:30pm. Cause: Router / firewall upgrade
Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - server was down from 6:28am until 1:43pm. Cause: Connection software just "went away"
Thursday, December 28, 2000 - server was down from 6:28pm until 8:42pm. Cause: Bell/Nexxia network outage.
Friday, December 22, 2000 - server was down from 4:15am until 11:09am. Cause: Bell/Nexxia network outage.
Saturday, December 9, 2000 - LOTS MORE PROBLEMS! server was down from 3:15am until 7:35pm. Cause: Me! It was ALL MY FAULT. I can't blame this on anyone else this time. E-mail me if you want all the techy details, but otherwise let's just say it's a very busy time of year; it took me three trips to the server room to get it right!
Wednesday, December 6, 2000 - LOTS O' PROBLEMS! server was down from ?:??am until 1:18pm and 4:30pm until 6:55pm and then 7:??pm until 9:35pm. Cause: Bell/Nexxia network problems. My ISP claims that the problem will be solved today..!
Wednesday, November 29, 2000 - server was down from 1:58pm until 5:32pm. Cause: Bell/Nexxia network outage.
Wednesday, November 22, 2000 - server was down from about 9:15pm last night until 12:35pm. Cause: Bell/Nexxia network outage - I'm at home sick but I came into town anyway to reboot. My next server WILL be at my house in Chelsea, or on a more reliable connection...
Wednesday, November 15, 2000 - server was down from about 7:15pm until 7:45pm. Reason: memory upgrade
Friday, November 10, 2000 - Speak of the devil - server went down from 3:00am until 12:45pm. Cause: Bell/Nexxia network outage - had to come over to the server room on my lunch hour to reboot.
Thursday, November 9, 2000 - Say the good with the bad - Everything has been working beautifully for a week and a half!! No network problems, no mysterious dropped connections. I can relax and get back to my original tasks - software!
Sunday, October 29, 2000 - server was down from sometime after 7:25pm until 9:28pm. Cause: Bell/Nexxia network outage - manual reconnection required.
Tuesday, October 24, 2000 - well, I think a webmaster's diary is a good idea - I hope I have time to maintain it. The High Speed network was down from 7:41pm and about 9:15pm tonight. There have been ALOT of outages (or is it spelled 'outtages'?) recently. Usually, it used to be about once a week, but recently it's been 3 or 4...my apologies. My Highspeed ISP claims that it's a Bell/Nexxia/Redback problem; if things don't improve, I'll have to upgrade to Cable!
Note: This page is no longer being maintained - it is here for historical reference only. Until 2005, I ran my own server hardware and this page was used for communicating with clients and visitors regarding service disruptions and other events. Questions? Comments? Please contact us.
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