Hello December!

In the not so distant past an idea was born to do an online video within the marketing department and the road to production has been one of blood, sweat, and tears.       One of the ongoing debates during the planning sessions was how long it would actually take to go from zero to first video.  I made the bet that it could not be online before 2009.

While I am enjoying my large slice of “humble pie” I would like to introduce to you Episode 1 of LayeredTech TV.

If you have a few moments be sure to help spread the word of this video via your favorite social media outlet. We of course look forward to your feedback and if you have ideas for the show please email news@layeredtech.com and our production team will add them to the growing list of episode ideas!

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Every year the FastServers engineering team conducts major upgrades throughout all of our facilities for ongoing stability, network enhancements, and some consolidation effort.

The time has come again for us to make our annual review of all our environments and on the docket: Fremont, CA. Therefore, beginning August 1, 2008, and throughout the entire weekend ending August 3, 2008, FastServers will be performing mandatory datacenter floor maintenance to our Fremont facility. These activities will consist of the realignment of all FS-owned and operated servers, switches, and routing cores within the hosting facility in question. The purpose of this dispatch is to alert all of our Fremont customers, dedicated or co-located, of these planned events occurring at the beginning of August 2008.

It is imperative that all customers are aware of this maintenance as there will be multiple outages that will occur during our planned maintenance within this facility. At this time we cannot schedule around any particular customers’ server operations, nor minimize the amount of downtime for a specific client; it is almost impossible to say when, precisely, we would handle a client’s server during this operational window. FastServers will do its best to ensure that any downtime that occurs due to our mandatory maintenance shall have the least amount of impact on customers’ hosting environments.

Customers who are interested in migrating to one of our other facilities, to ensure operations stay online for their hosting needs, should speak with a sales representative immediately to begin collectively working on a migration plan for their hosting needs. Our sales representatives will provide all of the necessary elements for customers wanting to upgrade/migrate to another facility to continue operations before this maintenance period is upon us. Please note that that if you choose to migrate to one of FastServers’ other facilities, existing IP allocations will *not* be portable. This means that new IP addresses will need to be distributed to your solution within a new facility. Again, this is only for customers housed within our Fremont datacenter: by receiving this email, it’s apparent that you have one or more servers housed within our Fremont hosting environment. In addition, customers running outdated operating systems, control panels, etc., will be *required* to upgrade to the latest releases supported by FastServers; co-location customers excluded, if a migration to an elsewhere facility is preferred.

If you have any additional questions about the migration, please contact a support representative who will forward your request to a FastServers.Net administrator for further clarification. If you are interested in migrating your solution prior to the outlined maintenance, please speak with a sales representative immediately.

The FastServers.Net forums will be unavailable for a period of time Thursday, June 12th beginning at 00:00 CDT, as they are migrated from one server to another. During the migration, the forums will be temporarily inaccessible as a final copy is taken and transported to the new server. DNS will then be updated, and forwards placed on the old server to ensure that everyone is seeing the correct version of the forums.

If you have any questions regarding the FastServers.Net forums or this maintenance, open a ticket with our support department, and we will be happy to assist!