Following a recent 3 day stint of cable making, the network is now running on shielded cat 6 networking cables that are all hand made and tested by myself. They are cut to length to minimize airflow interference. With this upgrade the potential for introduce LCAP which is link aggregation and could allow up to 4 gb/s transfer rate between the NAS and the servers thus speeding up overall speeds.
This is still pending as an appropriate switch will need to be integrated.
Next, the servers are crammed onto my desk and have my keyboard and mouse ontop of them. This isn’t ideal for my comfort and heat distribution/airflow for the servers themselves. Therefore some physical rearrangement will be necessary and this is the cause of the downtime.
We expect to be down from 2AM EST to 8 AM EST.
Keep an eye on the Nobreaks.ca twitter for details and status updates.
Regards,
The LightSpeed Team