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Latest update on the news servers 22:00 Monday 25th. March.

Some 40 minutes after bringing the new twin news servers back on line
tonight, one of the two machines placed into customer service failed
with a hardware problem. This despite some 60 hours of testing over
the week end.

The immediate result was a reduced level of customer service and the
stopping of the feed of new news to the cluster to maintain
consistency between machines.

The problem was reported immediately via the monitoring software and
the fault traced. Replacement hardware was installed to recover the
faulty machine and the second server brought back into use again at
about 20:40.

The resultant backlog of articles is now slowly clearing, with both
servers currently supporting a high customer load.

We can only apologise for this unfortunate failure and assure you that
we are watching the situation closely to catch any further
anomalies.

Malcolm Muir
Demon Internet

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Malcolm S. Muir
Sunderland
England