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We'll Be Down for Maintenance on Friday Afternoon

Originally Posted Thursday, 29 July 2004 at 12:00 AM
Updated Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 10:31 PM

CornerBarPR.com^® and Contacts On Tap™ will be shut down for maintenance at roughly 4:00 p.m. CDT Friday, 30 Jun 04, for four or five hours.

We're moving our data center; the changes will result in greater system stability, reliability, and speed, and some other behind-the-scenes benefits.

We're continually improving services here at CornerBarPR.com: We've done a series of upgrades, refinements, tweaks, adjustments, and improvements over the past several months -- some of them arcane stuff, none of which is particularly noticeable except in special circumstances, but the aggregate of which has been noticeable improvement. This is a bit more major.

For the geek set, here's some more detail:

Our new data center sits on four different telecom Sonet (Synchronous Optical Network) fiber rings from AT&T, MCI/Worldcom, Qwest, and SBC. To achieve a fiber Sonet ring, each telecom company buries fiber optic cable in the ground along a unique, circular path, throughout a metropolitan area. This results in a multiple ring-like shapes, so that, if a fiber cut occurs anywhere along a specific ring, traffic on the fiber is immediately re-routed to the opposite direction from the cut, ensuring continuous service availability.

We'll be initially connecting our new data center to the SBC fiber in the building, to be followed later by connections to the other three carriers.

We'll also have improved, redundant electrical power feeds to further bolster our existing power backup systems, as well as improvements in site and facility security. And we'll have further improvements and enhancements in the near future.

The result, of course, will be better service, but we understand that Friday's interruption poses an inconvenience.

Just thought we'd let you know what was going on.

About The Author

Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR

Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR, is well-positioned as CornerBarPR's Chief Curmudgeon; he's our version of Andy Rooney -- loves words, particularly loves to complain about idiocy.

In his spare time, Rich runs the inventively named Barger Consulting, where he conducts strategic communications planning and research, and gives people advice whether they want it or not.

Through the years, Rich has tricked unsuspecting folks into giving him positions as managing editor of the public relations division of a 180-person agency, and as a wire service editor, an economic analyst, a federal investigator, and, bless his little muddy boots, a farmer. Really. He fancies himself a pretty fair country editor and at one time was famous among about half a dozen people as "The Voice of IABC."

At various points in what passes for a career, he's done time as a member of IABC, PRSA, and NSPRA, as well as the Gifted Association of Missouri, the University of Missouri Alumni Association, the Council of Better Business Bureaus (as a Senior Arbitrator), and a handful of church choirs.

Known as "Boom-Boom Barger" in Marching Mizzou, Rich refuses to answer the phone during University of Missouri football or basketball games, plays a hard-edged game of bridge, and is married to a woman he doesn't like to talk about much, because she's smarter and much nicer than he is.

Barger's motto: "Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once."