Espoo: Limited transit availability, fix is coming

Since we did a big network upgrade few weeks back our bandwidth usage skyrocketed.The result is that Espoo is right now a bit limited on transit capability as we are forced to limit the total throughput to avoid hefty burst datarate fees. Fix is coming 1st of March with a big increase on transit capability.We are also preparing for the next ... Read More »

21st Feb 2016
Bug with bonus disk quota + extra disk combo, fixed

Automation had a bug where additional bonus disk quota was added did not account for the extra disk bought, not adding the extra disk amount and reverting back to normal amount + bonus disk quota alone.

This bug has been now fixed.
If you have encountered this, please open a ticket and we'll quickly get it handled for you :)

19th Feb 2016
The sadness of the ST3000DM001

Backblaze has published an blog posting looking back to the ST3000DM001 drive failure rates. These are the same drives we used solely initially as well.Their failure data matches almost exactly ours, except we purchased our drives in Q1-Q4 of 2013 instead of 2012.Seagate has since updated this drive model, the part number has changed, along with ... Read More »

11th Feb 2016
Espoo DC switch upgrade in progress

Espoo DC edge switch upgrade is completed.

The main work has been completed now, but with increased port count we are going to connect more servers directly to edge; This will cause intermittent outages lasting upto 1 minute on few of the Espoo nodes.

30th Jan 2016