Cameron Gray

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COMPLETED: Emergency Maintainance: LinWebS1 (DC Hosting/Servers)

Outage: linwebs1.dc-servers.com What: Unable to access Web services for hSphere accounts Affects: All customers with hSphere accounts that use linwebs1.dc-servers.com When: Wed 8/May/2019 07:50am Web services became unavailable due to unknown factors this morning. Support Staff attempted to restart the server remotely but access was not restored. DataCentre Technicians despatched to site to investigate further. …

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COMPLETED: Emergency Maintainance: MySQL (DC Hosting/Servers)

Outage: mysql.dc-servers.com What: Unable to access MySQL services for hSphere accounts Affects: All customers with hSphere accounts that use MySQL When: Sat 2/December/2017 08:30am MySQL services became unavailable this morning on this server. Support Staff attempted to restart the server remotely but access was not restored. DataCentre Technicians despatched to site to investigate further.  The …

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COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance: OVZBudget03

Outage: ovz-budget-03.vps.astutium.com What: The issue is currently undergoing active investigation. See updates further down. Affects: All customers with OVZ virtual machines on ovz-budget-03.vps.astutium.com. When: This condition was detected at 07:50 2016/05/29. We do not yet have an ETA for service restoration but this post will be updated as further information is available. Update 2016-05-29 12:00 The …

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COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance: Win6/DC Hosting

Outage: Win6 (DC Hosting) due to RAID Array Degredation What: All customer websites served from Win6 are currently unavailable.  Mail and other servers are still available. Affects: All customers with websites served from Win6 (DC Hosting). Please note; this does not affect any part of the Astutium Network, or the MiniVPS Maidenhead or Manchester based …

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COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance – cPanel02

Emergency Maintenance: cPanel02 Hosting Server Replacement Drives and Migration of Data What is being done: Replacement of SSD Hard Drives and Migration of all existing data to the new disks, in order to proactively replace them prior to complete failure. Who is affected: Clients with cPanel/WHM Linux Hosting Services (web, email, personal, business hosting packages) …

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COMPLETED: Emergency Maintanence – CPanel6

Completed: Emergency Maintenance: cPanel11 Hosting Server What is being done: At present the drives are being checked for consistency and being reorganised due to potential issues being reported by the drives. Who is affected: Clients with cPanel/WHM Linux Hosting Services (web, email, personal, business hosting packages) on server: cPanel6   When is this maintenance: Starting …

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COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance – HSphere/Win6

Emergency Maintenance: Win6 What: Software/Failure Affects: HSphere Web Hosting Services Provided By Win6 When: Wednesday 18th June 2014 10:00 – ongoing Unfortunately thorugh several security issues, both with HSphere itself and customer applications, web hosting services provided by this server cannot be immediately recovered.  As such we are accelerating our plans to migrate customers to …

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COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance – Plesk 3

Unfortunately hosting server platform Plesk-3 has failed beyond repair. This will be affecting any services (email, ftp, web, mysql) you had running on that server. Technicians are working on restoring our last good backup to new hardware, however this is likely to take several days at least. You have 2 options, and we would be …

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COMPLETED: PHP Upgrade – cPanel Services

Due to major security issues with the currently deployed version of the PHP runtime, and the appearance of 0-day exploits for these issues; we have been forced to upgrade PHP to the latest 5.4 branch on all cPanel services. For most up-to-date pre-packaged applications, this should have no effect.  However, custom sites, modules for pre-packaged …

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COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance: Plesk1 (Duck)

Emergency Maintenance: Hosting Plesk 1 What: Unexpected Disk Failure of Hosting Server Plesk-1 Affects: All resellers/customers with websites and email services on Plesk 1 When: 2013/06/20 10:10 Engineers are onsite investigating the extent of the problems. It is currently expected that a new server will need to be deployed (ETA 12 hours) and hosting/email accounts recreated. …

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