SVI Status

Router Maintenance - Phase Two - Friday, 12:00AM PST

Patrick — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:24:06 +0000

Starting Friday, May 2 at 12:00AM PST we will be upgrading the hardware in one of our core routers. During this time you may experience intermittent connectivity issues to some of our services, which include:

E-mail
Web Site
Verizon DSL Customers
Covad T1 Customers

The upgrade is expected to take no more than an hour. During this time connectivity will be intermittent.

We appreciate your patience during this maintenance window.

Server Maintenance - Wednesday 11:45PM PST

Patrick — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:36:40 +0000

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 server when there is an increase in use which is much higher than normal.

We will also be upgrading the hardware in one of our core routers and upgrading its software. During this time you may experience intermittent connectivity issues to some of our services, which include:

E-mail
Web Site
Verizon DSL Customers
Covad T1 Customers

The upgrade is expected to take no more than an hour. During this time connectivity will be intermittent.

We appreciate your patience during this maintenance window.

spear.garlic.com - 100% Online and Healthy

Patrick — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:41:24 +0000

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 us know.

Thanks again for being so patient during the transition.

spear.garlic.com - Almost complete

Patrick — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:14:57 +0000

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

Patrick — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:46:52 +0000

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 until roughly 3:00AM PST. No e-mail will be lost at this time, but please be aware that all services will be temporarily unavailable to use.

This only effects customers who have their domain-based shared web and e-mail hosting on spear.garlic.com.

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

Patrick — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:58:48 +0000

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 will be migrating all customers from this machine to spear’s replacement. All services will be temporarily offline until 3am. No e-mail will be lost at this time. You will, however, be unable to send e-mail and browse your web site.

This only effects customers who have domains which are hosted on spear.garlic.com. If you would like to know what server your domain is on, you can either issue a ‘ping‘ from the Windows/Mac/Linux command line, or visit https://svi.garlic.com/webmail and enter your domain - after entering your domain and hitting Submit look in the Address bar of your browser - if it says https://svi.garlic.com/spearmail/ then you will be affected.

We thank you for your understanding and apologize in advance for any inconvenience this causes.

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

Patrick — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:37:31 +0000

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 setting to change your default port from 25 to 587 was sent out as a notification to the primary contact e-mail for your account in November of 2007.

Mail Server Reboot Tonight

Patrick — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:59:30 +0000

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

Patrick — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:27:39 +0000

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

Patrick — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:39:59 +0000

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.