Chris Burton
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Sep 27
COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance: Astutium cPanel10 Shared Hosting Server
Emergency Maintenance: cPanel Hosting Server cpanel10 What is being done: Replacement of primary SSD disk array. Who is affected: Clients with Hosting Services on UK/London cPanel Hosting (web, email, personal, business hosting packages) on server: cpanel10 When is this maintenance: Starting Tuesday 27 September 18:00 Completing Thursday 29 September 15:00 Why do we need to …
Aug 22
COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: Shared Hosting Server/Service Upgrades
DirectAdmin Shared Hosting Services Primary PHP Version Update What is being done: upgrade primary PHP version move users previously using the primary PHP version to legacy version upgrade packages dependant on later PHP versions This will take approximately 60 minutes during which time websites will be unavailable, email will continue to operate as normal. Who is …
Oct 27
COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: OVZ VPS Kernel Upgrades
Planned Maintenance: OVZ VPS Kernel Upgrades OVZ (OpenVZ) Virtual Private Servers What is being done: upgrade to new kernel, security patches and updates. In order for the updates to take effect all virtual servers will need to be shutdown and restarted. This will take approximately 30 minutes during which time any “active” connections will be disconnected. Who is affected: All …
Apr 12
COMPLETED: cPanel Shared Hosting Services
Planned Maintenance: cPanel Shared Hosting Services Control panel and operating system updates. What is being done: * update to new version of cpanel * reboot to use new kernel * upgrade anti-virus software Who is affected: All Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Media Hosting, ShoutCAST Hosting, File Hosting, Email Hosting, WordPress Hosting and Ecommerce Hosting services on shared …
Dec 02
COMPLETED:Emergency Maintanence – UK1.mcftserver.com
Outage: UK1.mcftserver.com What: All Minecraft servers on UK1.mcftserver.com are currently unavailable due to a hardware failure. Affects: All customers with Minecraft servers on UK1.mcftserver.com. When: This condition was detected at 21:50 2015/12/02. We do not yet have an ETA for service restoration but this post will be updated as further information is available. Update: December 2nd …
Oct 29
COMPLETED: Downtime: Xavvo/MiniVPS Services Newcastle
Outage: Xavvo/MiniVPS Services Newcastle What: All VPS/VDS/Dedicated Services in Newcastle are currently unavailable. Affects: All customers with Xavvo/MiniVPS services from the Wildcard DataCentre based in Newcastle. Please note; this does not affect any part of the Astutium Network, or the MiniVPS Maidenhead or Manchester based services. When: This condition was detected at 16:40 2015/10/29. We …
Sep 30
COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: US Shared Hosting / Minecraft Servers
Planned Maintenance: US Shared Hosting / Minecraft Servers What is being done: Transformer maintenance to prevent inner windings of transformer core from rubbing on outer windings / CET’s (Critical Environment Technicians) to repair a manufacturer defect. Who is affected: Clients with cPanel/WHM Linux Hosting Services (web, email, personal, business hosting packages) on server: cPanelA2 Clients with …
Aug 12
COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance – W2K8DNP1
Emergency Maintenance: Disk Check What: Following a forced reboot we are running a disk check. Affects: All services provided by W2K8DNP1 server. When: Tuesday, 12th August 2014 19:45 All hosting (web/email) services hosted on W2K8DNP1 server will be unavailable whilst the disk check is running.
May 07
COMPLETED: Maintenance – Domain Registration : [*.uk]
At 07:00 (BST) on Tuesday 10 June 2014 Nominet will have a systems outage lasting about one hour when they will be deploying a software upgrade. During this time all .uk registration systems will be unavailable. The Automaton will not process email requests, but they will be received and queued for processing when it restarts.
May 07
COMPLETED: Maintenance – Domain Registration : [*.uk]
At 07:00 (BST) on Tuesday 3 June 2014 Nominet will have a systems outage lasting around thirty minutes when they will be carrying out systems maintenance. During this time all .uk registration systems will be unavailable. The Automaton will not process email requests, but they will be received and queued for processing when it restarts. All …