Update: AboveNet doesn’t seem to be ready. They are dispatching a technician to check on their connectivity to our Demarc. Looks like this is an early Halloween trick!
We will be turning up a shiny, new transit link with AboveNet for our LAX data center tonight at 22:00 PDT. We will also be rolling out a new border router. This should improve latency for our LAX data center and provide fail-over capacity for our entire network. We will no longer have our trusty downtown border router carrying the entire load and can eliminate this as a single point of failure scenario from our contingency planning.
This roll out will culminate a year-long initiative to improve our network and increase our capacity.
We anticipate no interruption of service during this maintenance window. But, as with all core and border architectural changes, that possibility exists. Please plan accordingly. If you do observe an outage, please contact your Happy Dreamhost Technical Service representative immediately.