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		<title>St. Louis Data Center Outage &#8211; Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At approximately 7:45AM GMT+8 yesterday morning (14/02) the data center which houses one of our email and web hosting servers experienced a major unscheduled outage. The outage caused a disconnection of most of the internet services to that data center, which resulted in this hosting server effectively going &#8220;offline&#8221;. At 12:00AM GMT+8 connectivity was mainly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At approximately 7:45AM GMT+8 yesterday morning (14/02) the data center which houses one of our email and web hosting servers experienced a major unscheduled outage. The outage caused a disconnection of most of the internet services to that data center, which resulted in this hosting server effectively going &#8220;offline&#8221;. At 12:00AM GMT+8 connectivity was mainly restored, with the connection being completely restored a couple of hours after that. Below is the connectivity graph from our monitoring system. Rises above zero indicate a connection loss / period of connection loss.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sirtech.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/stl-a_dc_outage.jpg"><img src="http://www.sirtech.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/stl-a_dc_outage.jpg" alt="" title="stl-a_dc_outage" width="597" height="177" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-477" /></a><br /><br />As this occurred during business hours and we had limited information for an ETA, two attempts to shift the services to another data center were made with insufficient success to make them viable solutions. One reason for this is that the backups that were attempting to be restored from were designed for data recovery, not service recovery. While we cannot control these outages, we have updated our backup / recovery procedures to be able to shift services in future should we need to.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Website Redesigned</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To correspond with the new year we have released a newly designed website!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[To correspond with the new year we have released a newly designed website!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>DNS DDoS &#8211; Resolved</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DNS attack on our primary DNS provider has passed and primary DNS services are now back online.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The DNS attack on our primary DNS provider has passed and primary DNS services are now back online.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>DNS DDoS</title>
		<link>http://www.sirtech.com.au/dns-ddos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At approximately 6PM this evening (22/03) our Domain Name Service provider came under a Denial of Service attack which knocked out their primary, secondary, and tertiary Domain Name Services. This outage is presently affecting upwards of 600,000 internet domains globally. This outage is likely to affect (delay / bounce) email and web traffic to your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At approximately 6PM this evening (22/03) our Domain Name Service provider came under a Denial of Service attack which knocked out their primary, secondary, and tertiary Domain Name Services. This outage is presently affecting upwards of 600,000 internet domains globally. This outage is likely to affect (delay / bounce) email and web traffic to your domain for the duration. We have initiated a secondary DNS provider but there was still a minimum 3 hour outage time for all DNS services.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Site Updates</title>
		<link>http://www.sirtech.com.au/site-updates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been working hard in the past week to update a number of features in our website. Firstly, we redid the top navigation so that it looks correct across more browsers. Secondly, we are now using a customized version of WordPress as our back end CMS for the site. This should bring more frequent updates [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been working hard in the past week to update a number of features in our website. Firstly, we redid the top navigation so that it looks correct across more browsers. Secondly, we are now using a customized version of WordPress as our back end CMS for the site. This should bring more frequent updates to  the site as it is more manageable. Thirdly, we have shifted the site to our Australia servers, so Australian users should experience much faster load times.

For the moment, some parts of the site are still being redeveloped to plug into WordPress properly, and at present we are aware that the images in the website portfolio are not showing up.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Primary Hosting Software Upgrades &#8211; Complete</title>
		<link>http://www.sirtech.com.au/primary-hosting-software-upgrades-complete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 03:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend we have successfully completed an upgrade migration of all of our major hosting software. This should result in smoother operation for the server, as well as better automation of backups.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This weekend we have successfully completed an upgrade migration of all of our major hosting software. This should result in smoother operation for the server, as well as better automation of backups.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Application Exploit &#8211; Resolved</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early in the morning today a hacker successfully penetrated one of our web and mail hosting servers. It is believed an application exploit was used. We have performed a clean reinstall and reloaded with new certified software. Client websites and databasse, and mail user data, was restored from backups within a matter of hours. We [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Early in the morning today a hacker successfully penetrated one of our web and mail hosting servers. It is believed an application exploit was used. We have performed a clean reinstall and reloaded with new certified software. Client websites and databasse, and mail user data, was restored from backups within a matter of hours. We do not anticipate a rerun of these events, but we are keeping a manual watch on the primary server at the moment to ensure there is no suspicous network activity.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Minor Website Updates</title>
		<link>http://www.sirtech.com.au/minor-website-updates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sirtech.com.au/minor-website-updates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve made some minor modifications to the code behind the site, and made the site look a bit &#8216;cleaner&#8217; as well. We hope you like it!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve made some minor modifications to the code behind the site, and made the site look a bit &#8216;cleaner&#8217; as well. We hope you like it!]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Primary Hosting Server Upgrade &#8211; Complete</title>
		<link>http://www.sirtech.com.au/primary-hosting-server-upgrade-complete/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sirtech.com.au/primary-hosting-server-upgrade-complete/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past 24 hours all the primary hosting servers have been upgraded. Some problems with logging in to email (POP) for the username and password occured, but these have been resolved.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the past 24 hours all the primary hosting servers have been upgraded. Some problems with logging in to email (POP) for the username and password occured, but these have been resolved.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>New Website Online</title>
		<link>http://www.sirtech.com.au/new-website-online-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to welcome everyone to our new website!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We are pleased to welcome everyone to our new website!]]></content:encoded>
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