Chris Burton

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Sep 30

COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: US Shared Hosting / Minecraft Servers

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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 …

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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 …

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Jan 24

COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance – cPanel3

Emergency Maintenance: Disk Check What: Following a forced reboot we are running a disk check. Affects: All services provided by cPanel3 server. When: Friday, 24th January 2014 15:55 All hosting (web/email) services hosted on cPanel3 server will be unavailable whilst the disk check is running.

Jan 24

COMPLETED: PHP Upgrade – DirectAdmin Hosting

Scheduled Maintenance: DirectAdmin Hosting What: Upgrading PHP Version Affects: All DirectAdmin Hosting services When: Monday, January 27, 2014 from 20:00 to 22:00 GMT During this maintenance window, email, dns, website and ftp functionality will be impacted. For most up-to-date pre-packaged applications, this should have no effect.  However, custom sites, modules for pre-packaged software and templates …

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