News
Jun
25

Hello,

Touch Support staff will be conducting scheduled maintenance on our server hosting our primary website, billing system, and helpdesk beginning Thursday, June 26th at 19:00 EDT.

Maintenance Notification

The following services will be affected and may be intermittently or completely unavailable during the maintenance window:

  • Primary Website at http://touchsupport.com/
  • Primary Helpdesk at https://support.touchsupport.com/
  • Secondary Billing Portal at https://billing.touchsupport.com/
  • Livechat service via our Primary Website at http://touchsupport.com/


Purpose: To perform routine software updates to existing systems for improved functionality, performance and security.
Duration: Up to 30 minutes but likely much shorter
Start of maintenance window: Thursday, June 26th at 19:00 EDT
End of maintenance window: Thursday, June 26th at 19:30 EDT

To report emergency or urgent issues during the maintenance window please contact us via phone at (888) 45-TOUCH or (888) 458-6824

Touch Support engineers will work diligently to assure that data integrity is maintained and downtime is kept to a minimum.

If you have any comments, questions, or concerns regarding this outage please simply reply to this e-mail. Thank you!

Regards,
Touch Support, Inc.


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Jun
17

Event Date: June 23rd, 7:00AM CDT until June 27th, 4:30PM CDT
Event Location: Elk Grove Village, DF-CH1 Facility
Impact: Critical load will be transferred to reserve EG sources. Status will remain N+2.

Event: Please be advised that our Data Center has scheduled maintenance for EG-14A serving CR-28A for Monday June 23rd, 2014 7:00AM CDT through Friday June 27th, 2014 4:30PM CDT. During this maintenance, critical load will be transferred to reserve EG sources. Status will remain at N+2. Following the maintenance activities, full functional testing of the EG will be performed prior to restoring the engine to service.

Our operations team is standing by to assist you at any time. Please feel free to contact the Network Operations Center at (888) 45-TOUCH should you have any questions or concerns regarding this advisory.


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Jun
6
CVE-2014-0224 openssl: SSL/TLS MITM vulnerability
Posted by Brent S. on 06 June 2014 05:52 PM

Our team is aware of the most recent OpenSSL vulnerability released June 5th, 2014 and we are hard at work to patch all servers currently covered under server administration plans over the next few hours.

More details about this vulnerability can be found at the following locations:

http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0224

If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact our team via help desk, live chat or phone.


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May
22
Computer Room Cleaning
Posted by Brent S. on 22 May 2014 05:00 PM

The following advisory is being sent to you to inform you of upcoming maintenance work that may impact your service.

Event Date: June 2nd, 7:30 AM CDT until June 4th, 4:00 PM CDT
Event Location: Elk Grove Village, DF-CH1 Facility
Impact: None expected but maintenance will require customer cage access. All customer cage access will be monitored by a data center technician.

Event: Please be advised that our data center has scheduled HEPA vacuuming, access floor cleaning, and cab exterior cleaning for CR-3, CR-10, CR-14, and CR-28 starting on Monday, June 2nd, 2014. The cleaning will be conducted between 7:30 AM and 4:00 PM site local time.

Our operations team is standing by to assist you at any time. Please feel free to contact the Network Operations Center at (888) 45-TOUCH should you have any questions or concerns regarding this advisory.


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May
2
CR-28 UPS Maintenance May 7th, 2014, 6:00AM CDT
Posted by Brent S. on 02 May 2014 09:20 AM

The following advisory is being sent to you to inform you of upcoming maintenance work that may impact your service.

Event Date: May 7th, 6:00AM CDT until May 8th, 7:00AM CDT
Event Location: Elk Grove Village, DF-CH1 Facility
Impact: Critical load will be transferred to reserve UPS sources. Status will remain N+2.

Event: DuPont Fabros Technology, L.P. will be performing maintenance on UPS and Generator units serving CR-28 per schedule listed below. Maintenance will occur between the hours of 6:00 AM and 7:00 PM site local time. During this maintenance, critical load will be transferred to reserve UPS sources; Status will remain N+2.

UPS/Generator 14A, CR-28A, Wednesday, May 7, 2014
UPS/Generator 16B, CR-28B, Thursday, May 8, 2014

Our operations team is standing by to assist you at any time. Please feel free to contact the Network Operations Center at (888) 45-TOUCH should you have any questions or concerns regarding this advisory.


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Apr
21
An important message from Touch Support
Posted by Brent S. on 21 April 2014 12:45 PM

Following the news of the Heartbleed online security flaw, we want to remind you to take these important steps to protect your personal information:

- Make it a habit of changing your passwords every six months, beginning today.
- Be on the lookout for email phishing scams and when in doubt, avoid providing personal information.

Visit our blog update regarding security to learn more now.


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