Eclipse 2000 Blog

A notice to all customers, As you will already know we are based in Sheffield. You will have heard by now about the massave water damage our town has had, Our main office and local homes are very close to the Ulley Dam which is on high alert from its banks bursting.

We are putting this [...]

Although we are operating within our intended capacity, a number of customers are reporting slow Broadband speeds. We have established that traffic on the network remains high between the hours of 12:00 and 18:00.
Consequently the expected speeds as detailed on our website may not be achieved at times, particularly for bandwidth intensive activities like P2P, [...]

Today Paul and his family were blessed with the birth of Paige (New Baby), She was born at 14:34 today by a c-section. Paul is over the moon and will be returning with us in the next few days, We all wish them the best and good luck.

Eclipse 2000 will be performing network maintenance this coming Saturday between 10AM-12PM GMT       
This maintenance will require our core routers to be rebooted so there might be few minutes of downtime.
There might also be intermittent connectivity issues (packet loss, slow speeds etc) during the maintenance window
We will post further updates in this thread should there be any.
Update [...]

We are investigating reports of our BGP mix network running slow, we will update you once we have more information.
19:47pm -
This is now resolved.

A great offer for June 2007 here, Fancy running your own dedicated server but can’t really afford a full working model, Well why not try a VPS server. Everything is the same just on a smaller scale, We have this server below on offer for a few weeks, 
VPS Server 4 – AMD Opteron 244 Processors [...]

Issue – 03:41am
We are seeing issues with our cogent links currently that has caused a network wide outage. for now the network admin has rerouted our network to avoid the cogent connections but you may be seeing packet loss and extremely slow speeds. we are working with cogent to have this issue resolved as quickly [...]

We have today updated all shared and reseller servers to cPanel 11, The update has gone ok so far with no reported problems. If you have any problems at all please do get in contact with us so we can work with you and cpanel direct to resolve the issue.
Part 1 of the upgrade is [...]

We are currently having a problem on this BGP segment which is causing some servers and sites to not show, This will be resolved shortly.
Update: 21:57,
This issue has been caused by a huge DDOS attack on the BGP segement, Our data centre is removing all the traffic from this attack but this may take some [...]

A great offer for June 2007 here, Fancy running your own dedicated server but can’t really afford a full working model, Well why not try a VPS server. Everything is the same just on a smaller scale, We have this server below on offer for a few weeks,
VPS Server 4 – AMD Opteron 244 Processors [...]