Hello everyone. We’ll be in the datacenter over the next few days doing a few upgrades. At the top of the list is a firmware (Junos) update to our core routers. Unfortunately the update requires a reboot which will cause service interruption. We’ll take advantage of the reboot time to also double the capacity (additional network connections) from our core routers to core switching. Our peering servers in Europe will backlog articles while the US routers are rebooting. We don’t expect any lost articles etc but all customer connections will be reset and unavailable while the routers reboot and BGP routing converges (~10min). We expect the router update to take place on Saturday (June 29th) in the afternoon (our slow period).

We’ll update once the reboot is complete.

UPDATE

Upgrades complete. Total downtime ended up being closer to 15min due to some unforeseen snags.