Mail Scanning and DNS Friday 23rd May 2008

The DNS records for the mailscanner2.theitguys.co.uk cluster have been checked periodically throughout the night with several different service providers with positive results.

Both mail scanning cluster queues and services have also been monitored throughout the night and all mail has been delivered successfully.

Part of our continued commitment to upgrading our core service network we will be splitting the scanning clusters between our existing BVIC data-centre and our new Telford data-centre. The upgrades will be complete by next Tuesday and will add further redundancy to our mail scanning service, which will help prevent incidents like we have suffered this week.

The Telford data-centre sits on a 10Gb link into tele-house in London, has full power fail-over generation and will be primarily running our Apple MacOSX Server Xgrid clusters for web applications and email services. More information will be posted on this subject when the upgrades are complete.

Once again please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.