[BurnSim Announcements] BlastZone Mail Server Outage - Now online

[Greg Deputy]

On Saturday around 2pm the BlastZone mail server went offline due to a power
supply failure.  I was not able to get a replacement power supply for the
server until this morning, at which time the server was repaired and brought
back online about 1:00pm.  At this time the mail server is catching up on
queued messages and running optimally.

No mail was lost, and very little if any mail would have been bounced back
to senders during this outage.  Mail servers generally queue mails for 48
hours before bouncing back to senders when the destination mail server is
not responding.  In this case the server was brought back online about 47
hours after it was offline.  

To prevent outages of this duration in the future I am now stocking all
non-redundant server components for the mail server and considering setting
up a fail over mail server.

Thanks for your patience during this outage, if you have any questions
please feel free to contact me directly.

Greg Deputy
BlastZone.com Web Hosting, Custom application development
253 335 3792