We have scheduled maintenance to introduce a customer's environment to our chicago facility.

Date: Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
Start Time: 11:00 PM CDT (GMT -5)
End Time: 1:00 AM CDT (GMT -5)

Maintenance Scope: Chicago Facilities (chi01,chi02)

Customer Impact:

During this window we will be introducing a customer's environment to our network. While we do not expect issues to occur there is still a possibility of service interruption.

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We have scheduled maintenance on our core network out of Chicago to reintroduce Level3 and Cogent to our network.

Date: Wednesday, May 29th, 2019 through Thursday, May 30, 2019
Start Time: 11:00 PM CDT (GMT -5)
End Time: 12:00 AM CDT (GMT -5)

Maintenance Scope: Core Network for all Chicago facilities (chi01/chi02/chi18)

Customer Impact:

During this window there is an expected change in various aspects of routing as we reintroduce two transit providers
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We have scheduled a software upgrade of our SAN infrastructure in Chicago, IL. This is purely a backend upgrade and does not change interactions with client environments.

Date: Sunday, May 12th, 2019
Start Time: 12:00 AM CDT (GMT -5)
End Time: 4:00 AM CDT (GMT -5)

Maintenance Scope: Hybrid Performance SAN (350 E. Cermak Chicago)

Customer Impact:

There is no expected impact during this maintenance as our SAN infrastructure is fully redundant. While we
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We have scheduled an upgrade of our R1Soft Server Backup (formerly Idera Server Backup or R1Soft CDP) platform software on cdp01.steadfast.net to version 6.10.0.  This upgrade fixes a number of bugs, including some related to MySQL backup and restoration.

This upgrade is being performed during the daytime, mid-week, because it is the lowest utilization period.

Date: Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
Start Time: 1:00 PM CDT (UTC
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We have scheduled an upgrade of our R1Soft Server Backup (formerly Idera Server Backup or R1Soft CDP) platform software on cdp01.steadfast.net to version 6.8.2.  This upgrade fixes a number of bugs and improves how scheduled backup retention works.

This upgrade is being performed during the daytime, mid-week, because it is the lowest utilization period.

Date: Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
Start Time: 1:00 PM CDT (GMT -5)
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We have scheduled an upgrade of our help desk software (https://support.steadfast.net).  This update addresses bugs and performance issues and adds minor features.

Date: Sunday, April 7th, 2019
Start Time: 12:00 AM CDT (UTC -5)
End Time: 2:00 AM CDT (UTC -5)
Maintenance Scope: Help Desk at https://support.steadfast.net

Customer Impact:

The ability to submit tickets
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