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We're sponsoring yet another BarCamp - BarCampBelfast, which is being held this Saturday, June 30th 2007 at Queen's University in Belfast.
I've been at a couple of the BarCamp events over the last year and if anything they aren't boring, so it should be a good day. In any case it's a wonderful excuse to head up to Belfast!
As a company based in Carlow it's nice to see sites that serve the local community being hosted by us.
One such site is Carlow.pl, which completed its migration from a server in Poland this weekend.
Carlow.pl was setup to serve both the Irish and Polish communities in the greater Carlow area and is available in both Poish and English.
The site's administrator, Krystian Kozerawski, moved to Carlow about eighteen months ago and started work on the site before Christmas of last year.
As the non-English speaking population in Irish regional towns grows it's nice to see new sites and services launching to cater to their needs, so we were delighted to offer Krystian and his community some space on our servers.
I'll be looking forward to seeing what he does with some of the other regional portals he has planned!
If you are trading under your own name now is the time to register your IE domain.
Why?
It is highly likely that the IE Domain Registry will be amending the rules governing "personal" IE domains.
What does this mean?
Soon any Irish resident will be able to register theirname.ie ie. if your name is Pat Murphy, you will be able to register patmurphy.ie, as long as your official documents list your name as "Pat" and not "Patrick".
We'll make more announcements on the subject as the official changes are announced, but we would expect to see an IEDR policy change in the next 2 months.
Just to followup on the network maintenance from the other evening.
The work went ahead as scheduled and we have not had any reports of issues from clients.
We will be announcing the next phase in our network upgrades and maintenance plans in the coming days.
To keep abreast of these changes I'd recommend you subscribe to our RSS feeds :)
We're doing some more work on our core network this week, as we finally get to put our new Juniper routers live.
There shouldn't be any network downtime, as BGP should allow us simply to route the traffic elsewhere while making the changes, however when there are computers and humans involved you can never be sure :)
So to that end we are issuing the following maintenance notification:
When: Wednesday 13th, Thursday 14th of June (2007)
Time: 23:00 - 01:00
During this period we intend to switch off the BGP sessions on the router that is being replaced. We'll lose Level(3) and Smart telecom. If Tiscali (our third carrier) have any issues, we could potentially loose international connectivity for a time during the upgrade. All INEX connectivity will not be affected during this upgrade. We estimate 10 - 15 minutes where we will be "at risk" during the swap over.
What:
We are upgrading our edge routers to Juniper Service Routers from their current configuration. This will happen in two stages,
1 which will happen in the above time slot and the other during another time slot that has yet to be decided upon. There are several reasons for upgrading to Juniper service routers.
a) Additional port density, this means we can add more carriers, a second INEX connection and also take on services like Packet Exchanges eXpand and ProXimity services to give us further reach through global private peering.
b) As part of our ever expanding network we have to take into consideration our growth. Our traffic to the general internet has more than doubled in the past 12 months. These new service routers will allow us to continue this growth.
c) INEX are adding a second physical network, similar to LINX in London, and we'll have our second connection to that. This'll give us more capacity on INEX but also give us much greater redundancy and remove the single point of failure that we currently have.
Nominet has been working on upgrades to their backend systems over the last few weeks.
The upgrades were meant to have been finished by this morning, but there have been some delays.
This has led to a slight backlog on requests for new registrations, updates and renewals.
All requests are being queued.
If you want to get a "previously owned" IE domain then today is a good day for you.
If you check our deleted domain list you will see that it has updated as of midday today (or thereabouts) and now includes the latest IE domain deletions. If you qualify to register the domains you can do so immediately via our website.
It's Friday - treat yourself !