MyADSL Downtime

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Hi folks

Our apologies for the downtime this evening. Hetzner had to do maintenance on their diesel generator and the time taken for this maintenance took longer than expected. An emergency shutdown was done by them as a precautionary measure which caused the downtime. I am not entirely certain why this maintenance influenced the general power supply to the servers, but unfortunately this is the only information I have at this time.

We again apologize for any inconvenience caused during this period.

Regards,

RPM
 
Don't worry RPM, I didn't even notice it! :p Had visitors... only dialed in around half past ten! :)
 
mmm for a moment there lastnight i thought Telkom Blocked MyADSL on their network... : ) - imagine the drama if they did : )))
 
The very same thought flitted through my head as well LabAnimal :D

It was a scary time for me when I couldn't get on. I'm thinking of suing for emotional distress. ^_^
 
The only way to realy test wether the generator will kick in in the event of a power failure is to simulate it. When my dad's company did some work on the generators at makadu airforce base they also had to simulate a power failure to test that everything is in working order. The total down time is such a simulation shouldn't be very long. 20-30 min max in a worst case senario.
 
From my Experience what should happen, is that the genny should be test running regularily, THEN INSPECTED.

I know of a site that tested their genny every month for 10 minutes at a time.

When the Genny was called upon to run for an extended period of time, a metal water cooling pipe cracked and seized the Engine (A Big CAT)

An investigation revealed that the Metal water pipe mountings were loose, and the vibration eventually cracked the pipe during an extended time run.

Result, One site down, until Eskom came back.
 
i couldnt get onto any part of the site last night...
 
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