Archive for April, 2008

Server Maintenance - Wednesday 11:45PM PST

Posted April 29th @ 10:36 am by Patrick

We will be performing some updates to a few pieces of hardware in our DataCenter Wednesday night starting at 11:45PM PST.  During this time we will be upgrading the 2.6.9 kernel on our mail server cluster to 2.6.25, which is expected to increase performance.  We have been noticing some slight hiccups recently in the mail [...]

spear.garlic.com - 100% Online and Healthy

Posted April 22nd @ 5:41 pm by Patrick

This is to let all shared hosting customers on spear.garlic.com aware that the final phase has been complete.  All of your accounts have been restored on the new server, and the new server is working flawlessly.
If you are experiencing issues with your domain-based e-mail or your web site, or anything related to spear.garlic.com please let [...]

spear.garlic.com - Almost complete

Posted April 22nd @ 12:14 am by Patrick

Most of the web sites from the old spear.garlic.com have now been migrated to the new machine.  Some of you may experience missing e-mails from the past few days - they will arrive in your mailbox shortly.
Thank you all for your patience and understanding during this migration/server update.

spear.garlic.com - Second Phase - Monday 4/21/2008 11:00PM PST

Posted April 19th @ 4:46 pm by Patrick

We will continue the second and final phase in migrating our customers onto a new shared hosting server.
Starting Monday night at 11:00PM PST, we will be taking the existing spear.garlic.com shared hosting server and are replacing it with a new machine.  This will alleviate all issues with speed on the box.  The process should take [...]

spear.garlic.com - Emergency Server Maintenance - Sat April 19 12:00am PST

Posted April 17th @ 6:58 pm by Patrick

We will be replacing the current spear.garlic.com server with a much faster, more efficient machine. There have been support e-mails and calls recently about the sluggishness of the server. In response, we will be building a brand new server to replace spear.
What this means is that starting Saturday, April 19 at 12:00am, we [...]

If you are experiencing issues with your garlic.com E-mail account…

Posted April 9th @ 10:37 am by Patrick

Please make sure your mail account is set to the following settings:
Incoming Mail Server Information:
- mail.garlic.com
Outgoing Mail Server Information:
- mail.garlic.com
- Port 587
- “My Server Requires Authentication” box is checked
If you are wondering why your e-mail has stopped sending all of a sudden, we made some changes to protect our garlic.com customers from spam. This [...]

Mail Server Reboot Tonight

Posted April 7th @ 1:59 pm by Patrick

We will be doing a quick reboot of our mail servers tonight around 11:00pm PST. No e-mail will be lost at this time, but please be aware that e-mail service will be unavailable around this time.

weather.garlic.com working again

Posted April 5th @ 10:27 pm by Patrick

SVI’s weather station, weather.garlic.com, was out of commission for a few days.  The issue has been resolved - the weather station needed a battery replacement.
weather.garlic.com now shows the correct temperature again.

Phone Systems Upgrade

Posted April 5th @ 6:39 pm by Patrick

We will be performing an upgrade of our phone systems tonight in between the hours of 9PM PST and 12AM PST tonight. If you have issues calling in for support, please try calling back, or e-mail support@garlic.com.

spear.garlic.com memory upgrade

Posted April 4th @ 2:48 pm by Patrick

We are upgrading the memory on one of our shared hosting servers - spear.garlic.com.  Downtime is scheduled for 11:00pm PST.  Total downtime expected is no more than 30 minutes.
No e-mail or data will be lost during this time.

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