September 19 , 2008 - Dovetail experienced an email server outage which effected some of our clients who use the IMAP protocol for sending and receiving email. The IMAP service was temporarily unavailable on incoming.dovetailinternet.com. While this issue was quickly resolved, we recommend that our users alter their email applications using one of the following server configurations:

All outbound mail queues have been cleared and mail delivery is back to normal for all users.

Thank you for your patience and understanding while we fixed this issue.

Currently some users are experiencing issues while attempting to access mail. Most users accessing mail via webmail may experience slowness in navigating the interface, and may get 500 Internal Errors. About 40% of users may also experience connectivity challenges while accessing mailboxes via a POP or IMAP connection and sending mail. 

Our engineers are working feverishly to help resolve the issue, for which information will be posted on the network status page at http://www.dovetailinternet.com/default.asp?LINKNAME=NETWORK_STATUS as it is made available.

Thanks for your patience, and we do apologize for this and any inconvenience you or your users may encounter.

Updated: 03:51 pm

As of 2:39pm, this issue was resolved.   We appreciate your understanding.

Updated: 12:16 pm

Currently, connections for many users to the SMTP Outbound mail servers are not resolving correctly, resulting in connection errors and an inability for those affected users to send mail via third party mail clients.

Updated: 12:04 pm

Currently users may experience access challenges while checking email via a webmail interface. 

Technicians are working to resolve the problem. Please note this interuption is only affecting some domains and is limited to the Web based email portal -- Direct connections via Outlook are NOT affected.  All other services are operating normally for subscribers.

We will update this post as events unfold. Network status can also be reviewed here

- The Dovetail Customer Service Team

Updated: 11:47 am

All services are running normally.

Updated: 9:11 am

One of Dovetail's web servers is currently experienceing downtime as the result of a hardware issue.

Technicians are on-site working the problem. Please note this interuption is NOT affecting all sites, and AVOID Emergency Web hosting is operating normally for subscribers.

We will update this post as events unfold. Network status can also be reviewed here

- The Dovetail Customer Service Team

From time to time someone asks what's going on this quarter with the hosting environment.  It is a great question and we are so busy we don't always stop to announce what we're doing!  So I thought I'd take a minute to post this list of strategic projects already underway...

Current Dovetail Internet Technologies Hosting Initiatives:

• Extending secure off-site storage practices.
  • New arrangements for data archiving and storage will enable us to extend the benefits of off-site storage.
    
• Increasing the capabilities of the core network infrastructure to gigabit bandwidth capacity.
  • Replacement of the core network with higher capacity switches will enhance performance and increase internal traffic speed.
    
• Continued improvements to resource management tool sets.
  • Many tasks performed manually by our staff will be automated such as user reports, domain reports, disk usage, etc.
    
• Increasing backup capacity.  
  • Having complete the implementation of a gigabit SAN we will be adding more backup drives with higher capacity, updating the backup software and replacing the backup servers.
    

Have a wonderful day!

--Mark