At approximately 9:50 am CST this morning we identified several major DDOS attacks targeting clients within our datacenter. This may have lead to increased latency or difficulty reaching services for a short period of time. Our Support Staff and Network Engineers worked quickly to mitigate the situation and return traffic to normal by 10:10 am. We are continuing to monitor the network for further attacks and have brought in additional staff as a reserve. At present time, our focus is 100% on

We have scheduled a maintenance in Chicago, IL for our 725 S. Wells (chi18) facility.

Date: Thursday, September 3, 2020 to Friday, September 4, 2020
Start Time: 11:00 PM CDT (GMT -5)
End Time: 5:00 AM CDT (GMT -5)

Maintenance Scope: Network Services at 725 S. Wells Chicago.

Customer Impact:

There will be several periods of traffic loss as we make repairs to one of the distribution routers out of this facility. While every effort will be made to limit the

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 6.12.0.  This update includes changes to the agent to reduce the need for full block scans and fixes a number of bugs.

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

Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Start Time: 1:00

We have scheduled an upgrade maintenance for our Hybrid SAN infrastructure in Chicago, IL.

Date: Thursday, December 19th, 2019
Start Time: 10:00 PM CDT (GMT -5)
End Time: 2:00 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.

Please read this message in its entirety as it regards datacenter infrastructure maintenance within our 350 East Cermak location this coming weekend. We are posting this notice because you have services with Steadfast that are related to critical power maintenance being performed by the building. We do not anticipate any service interruptions to customer equipment during this maintenance.

We have scheduled an upgrade of our internal email system.

Date: Sunday, October 20th, 2019
Start Time: 12:00 AM CDT (GMT -5)
End Time: 1:00 AM CDT (GMT -5)
Maintenance Scope: Steadfast Email System (all steadfast.net email addresses)

Customer Impact:

During the maintenance, steadfast.net email addresses may be unavailable for up