Update: Feb. 13, 11:50 AM: Still working on issue.

Update: Jan. 29, 11:00 AM: Still working on issue. We may have identified the cause.

Update: Jan. 25, 10:30 AM: Still working on issue.

We are having a problem with Joomla sites on the server defiant. Content is not showing up on the sites. We are working on the issue.

Update: 7:40 AM: Server up. Reason for downtime under investigation.

Server defiant down. Under investigation.

Update: 11:15 AM: From the data center:

"There was a cooling malfunction that effected the area of data center that your server is located in. To prevent any over heating issues we attempted to cleanly shutdown your server, to prevent any data loss. We are in the process of powering up any affected servers, we expect this process to take no longer then 30-60 minutes."

Everything is up and running again.

Update: 9:41 AM: Still waiting for info from data center. More to follow.

Servers Defiant and Centurion at Clifton are down. Under investigation.

Update: 10:05 AM: Server back up. We will keep an eye on this.

Server defiant is down. Under investigation.

Update: 10:40 AM: Server was rebooted. All seems well now.

Problem with websites on server defiant at Fortress ITX Data Center in Clifton, NJ. More to follow.

Update: 9:45 AM: Problem found and fixed. Full service should be returned shortly.

Problem with websites at Fortress ITX Data Center in Clifton, NJ. More to follow.

From the datacenter website:

Distributed Denial of Service Attack - July 8th, 2010 @ 4:15PM EST

There is presently a significant denial of service attack directed towards hosts on our network that is affecting a number of other customers. Our network administrators are presently working on the issue and expect it to be resolved shortly. We will update this status page once the attack has been dealt with. Thank you for your patience.

Update @ 5:28PM EST
Our networking team has resolved the issue. All services should be accessible by this time. If you have any servers that are still not accessible, please submit a traceroute to our support department. Thank you again for your patience and understanding.

Update: Feb 24, 2010, 9:20 AM: The security site from which server defiant receives its updates was down. The security software kept looking for updates even after the security site came back up. This caused the cpu usage to slowly clime to 100%. This, of course, should not have happened. A fix is in the works. Again, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Update: 9:40 AM: There was an update of security software on server defiant this morning. One of the updated packages began to take over more and more of the cpu. Although services (web pages, email, etc.) had not yet begun to degrade, they were heading in that direction. Hopefully, the reboot will take care of the problem. We will continue to monitor the server and take appropriate actions if needed.

Original: There will be an unscheduled reboot of server defiant at 9:20 AM. You should complete any updates you are working on and log out before that time.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and thank you for your patience.

Update: Feb 16, 2010, 8:20 AM: Although we have not been officially notified, it appears that repairs have been completed, and that service is back to normal.

Update: 5:30 PM: During the repairs, most traffic was successfully re-routed so that most sites and services (email, etc.) remained up. We have not yet received word that repairs have been completed. Some brief interruptions are possible over the next several hours.

Original: There is a break in the connections to servers at the Fortress ITX Data Center in Clifton, NJ.

There is a fiber cut between the route of Ashburn to New York City. The fiber cut has been identified between the area of New York City and Princeton, NJ. Level 3 has been contacted and they advised that there are 384 fiber count fiber cut in the area of Weehaken, NJ due to a fire in a manhole. The fiber crew is at the location now fixing the fiber cut. We will update you when we know more.

Update: Feb 15, 2010, 8:35 AM: No root cause was found for problem. Reboot seems to have fixed whatever was going wrong. Sometimes the cybergods just laugh at us.

Update: 6:55 AM: Server rebooted. All services up and running. Cause of problem under investigation.

Original: Server defiant not responding. More to follow.

Update: Jan 15, 2010: From the Fortress ITX Data Center in Clifton, NJ:

Yesterday morning [Jan 7] at approximately 9AM EST, we experienced a failure in one of our core routers which caused some network outages for approximately 30 minutes. Initially, we found a faulty supervisor card in the router. The card was immediately replaced, and the router was restored back onto the network.

Shortly after returning traffic to the router, the newly replaced supervisor card failed. During this second failure, traffic that was passing over that router was essentially black holed and not delivering properly via BGP sessions over the other routers as it should have been. In other words, failover routers were not seeing this traffic as a true failure and thus did not shift traffic properly as it should have.

We have since removed that router from our network and will be replacing it entirely as the issue is more of an upstream problem of the supervisor card on the router itself. We apologize for any inconvenience that this outage may have caused to you, and we will update you on the replacement of the router when it will be deployed. We thank you for your patience and understanding in this matter and appreciate your continued support and patronage.

Update:11:30 AM: Network stable. We are waiting for a report from the data center about what happened.

Update:10:20 AM: Connections are becoming more stable. We will continue to monitor. More to follow.

Update:9:40 AM: Intermittent connection outages continue. Servers remain stable. More to follow.

Update:7:52 AM: Outages started again. More to follow.

Update:7:40 AM: All connections reestablished. Appears to have been a problem with an incoming router at the data center. All servers were up during the outages.

Original: Intermittent outages of connections to servers at the Fortress ITX Data Center in Clifton, NJ. This started at about 6:30 AM. More to follow

Update: Oct. 22, 10:45 AM: Server has been re-booted. Additional re-boots may be necessary later today. Please check this page before beginning extensive editing of your site. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and thank you for your patience.

Original: There will be an unscheduled reboot of server defiant at 10:40 AM.

A fake email is being sent out purporting to be from the system administrator of wjtech.net. It states that there will be a server upgrade on October 16. It tell you to download a patch and run it on your local computer. DO NOT DO THIS. The patch probably is a virus that will compromise you computer.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to get in touch with us at the email address or phone number listed at the top of this page.

Update: 4:50 PM: We were experiencing some unusual activity on server centurion. After reboot, server is up and running smoothly. We will continue to monitor.

Original: There will be an unscheduled reboot of server centurion at 3:30 PM.

Update: Oct. 12, 12:05 PM: Only a few site still to be moved.

Update: Sept. 14, 4:50 PM: Still moving sites.

Original: Beginning today, Friday September 4, 2009, and continuing over the weekend, we will be moving all sites on server centurion to a new server. The new server (named defiant) will have a different control panel for managing security, email, and websites.

One of the biggest changes will be how email is handled. You will be receiving instructions on how to access you email shortly. This email will be sent from the old server, so you will be able to receive it just as you always have. A link to these instructions will also be posted here. Note: Your email address WILL NOT change.  

Your actual site will be visible on the internet during the transition, but once switched to the new server, some functions may not be available for a short while.

If you must make critical updates to your site right now, let me know and I will hold off until they are complete.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.

Update: 7:20 PM: Server centurion is back on line. We are running various test on the server. If additional reboots are necessary, they will take place between 5 AM and 8 AM tomorrow (June 12) morning.

Original: Unscheduled reboot of server to take place at 7:15 PM