There 10 mins of downtime expected during cluster maintenance this evening at approximately 11:59pm CST while we will be performing cluster maintenance. We anticipate no more than 10 minutes of downtime while reboot each node. We appreciate your patience during … Continue reading
Soundwave Outage – RESOLVED
Unfortunately this weekend, soundwave’s file system became corrupted and was unrecoverable. It is currently out of service and is in the midst of being restored from one of our backups. The outage happened at approximately 2am CST and our late … Continue reading
Phase 2 – Network Migrations – COMPLETED
This has a been a great year for Maxim Hosting! We have expanded our support staff so that we can truly offer full 24/7 technical support by phone, email, and helpdesk. We have also grown by almost 30% in 2008. … Continue reading
Phase 1 – New Infrastructure – COMPLETED
Well, as some of you might know, over the next couple of weeks, Maxim Hosting is going to be making some large changes to its network and system infrastructure in order to upgrade to a more fault tolerant and faster … Continue reading
DDOS Attack – RESOLVED
Let me start by saying that this network event affected a small subset of our customers accessing Maxim over one of our connections for a short period of time today. A large inbound Denial of Service attack saturated connections to … Continue reading
Network Outage – RESOLVED
As of 9:15 AM EST, our data center experienced downtime as a result of a DDOS attack on the network and we have all available engineers working on the issue to resolve it as soon as possible. We apologize for … Continue reading
Mail Server Maintenance – COMPLETED
Here is a little background on the issue: Last night we converted the storage format for email from mbox to maildir. This change minimizes the chance of email becoming corrupted as individual messages are saved in separate files, one file … Continue reading

