Posted by Joe Cimoch on November 20, 1999 at 08:06:09:
I just received this message from Pair, the new hosting company that the site resides on:
[ This notice is being sent to all billing contacts on file as pair
Networks customers. If it is reaching you in error, please accept
our apologies and disregard. We use this method of reaching our
customers only in the most important circumstances. ]
pair Networks, Inc. is pleased to announce that it will be moving into
its new world-class datacenter facilities on Monday, December 6th.
Full details of the new datacenter are available at:
http://www.pair.com/Move/
(please note that this is a capital "M")
The impact to customers is that on that day, each server will be down
for three to six hours - no longer unless something unusual happens.
During the time a server is down, sites hosted on that server will be
inaccessible. Visitors who attempt to reach those sites will either
receive a "DNS failure" error, or "Site unreachable". Because of the
relatively short duration of the outage, this is the only technically
feasible method of completing the move.
During the move, there is a period during which our network will be
entirely down. It is also possible that problems will arise in bringing
connectivity online at the new facility. To cover these cases, we will
be posting updates at the following non-pair URL throughout the day:
http://pair-is-moving.com/
The new facility will provide improved cooling, expansion space, fiber
redundancy, and battery capacity, among other benefits. This step is
crucial to the growth of pair Networks, and will support ten years of
growth. The new datacenter is owned by pair Networks, and is not part
of any larger center. We continue to control our own network and
equipment.
Please accept our apologies for contacting you in this fashion. If you
have been contacted in error, please let us know, and include the ID
number from the Subject line of this message.
Thank you for choosing pair Networks, Inc as your Web hosting provider!
Support Department
support@pair.com