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Posted September 25 2001

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At approximately 5:22 p.m. Central Daylight Savings Time today (or 10:22 p.m. GMT, I think) my ISP (Group Telecom) switched the ClarionMag servers to a new network. The site was unavailable for approximately 9 minutes during this time, slightly less than the allotted 15 minute window. 

This network cutover follows on the heels of last week's unexpectedly accelerated switch to Clarion Magazine's new IP address block. This new block of addresses is now on the new network, where Clarion Magazine has a closer connection to the backbone and less traffic on the local segment (down to 15-20 other users, from as many as 200 now).

What does the cutover to the new network really mean? More reliability, and perhaps a little more speed, although there's fiber to the building, and we're pretty close to the backbone already.

Dave Harms

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