Our next scheduled maintenance will take place on Sunday December 18, 2011 starting at 11:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time (MST). The projected completion time is 2:00 a.m. MST on December 19, 2011.

Please note that during this maintenance window you may see intermittent connectivity issues until the maintenance is complete.

During this maintenance action our provider is in the process of upgrading and replacing their core routing devices to new and better hardware. This migration is another step to provide you with the best network performance possible and increase our network scalability, and redundancy. During the next few weeks you will be receiving maintenance notifications as they are slowly migrating to these new core routers. The migration process has been broken into smaller pieces to ensure they focus on only a few clients per maintenance to minimize any possible downtime.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as the network engineers continue to work to improve our network systems. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this maintenance schedule, please feel free to contact our Customer Support Department at any time.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

I enjoy that since you copy/pasted the content of the provider's e-mail and stripped it of context, this announcement reads as though Carrion Fields has a massive network infrastructure, specialized engineers, a dedicated Customer Support Department. Especially exciting? Scheduled maintenance.

It was a happy little fantasy.

Splntrd