We have lost power to our rack in Harbour Exchange Square. Our UPS held power for a while but the batteries are now exhausted meaning that services that are provided from Harbour Exchange Square are currently affected – this primarily relates to some of our Leased Lines which are single homed. Most other services have re-routed via alternative Data Centres.
The Data Centre Technicians are working to restore power to the rack asap and we will then expect to see services recover here.
We will update this further as we have the updates.
Note this does not affect services (including leased lines) from other data centres – although there may have been some network instability initially
We are sorry for this issue
UPDATE 14:15 We are starting to see power restored to our rack though there are still some service affected – many are now restored. We are working through these issues and will update this further – However in many cases you should see service restored now
UPDATE 14:22 Equinix (Our Data Centre Supplier in HEX) have just emailed a Incident Update confirming a possible power issue at the facility. We are continuing to see services restore. There are a few remaining services down and we continue to work to resolve these asap. NOTE we have used the opportunity with the power loss to complete the UPS batter replacement – so that there will be no further maintenance on the power within our rack and in the unlikely event of another power fail we now have new batteries in the UPS
UPDATE 15:30 We have restored most services now although it seems the power failure has caused a switch to fail in the rack. All critical services have been moved off of the affected switch and a replacement is being organised to swap out hopefully later this afternoon/evening. There should now be no affected services – However the network should be deemed at risk due to the reduction in redundancy. We will update this once the switch replacement starts
UPDATE 21:10 A replacement switch is now in place and configured in Harbour Exchange square and the remaining services (and resilience) are now restored. There is a need to investigate the power issue further and the data centre may need to change the breaker we are connected to. However this will be a separate planned works and will be announced later. This may be at sort notice BUT will be out of core hours – and will not be today.
We believe service is now fully restored – IF anyone has any ongoing issues please raise them to support via the normal means.