Chris Burton

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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 …

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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 …

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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.

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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