Rob Golding

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Sep 23

COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: DDUK Servers/Services Upgrade and Restart

Planned Maintenance: DDUK Servers/Services Upgrades Operating Systems, Control Panels, Script Installers, DNS and Other Add-On Services What is being done: upgrade to new operating system version update of anti-virus software installation of .66. cPanel/WHM update of security systems including firewalls and intrusion detection software essential patches and maintenance In order for the updates to take effect …

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Jul 04

COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance: OVZBudget02

What: Urgent Replacement of : ovz-budget-02.vps.astutium.com Load based problems causing VPS Host Node random restarts on the ovz-budget-02 server This host/node has suffered 3 issues in recent weeks, and again today is under extreme load. We are therefore performing an emergency migration of all Active VPS to new hardware to prevent further servcie interruptions whilst …

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Jun 11

COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance – Plesk 8-9

Outage: plesk8-9.hosting.astutium.com What: Unable to access services running on Plesk Hosting Server 8-9 Affects: All customers with Plesk based shared hosting in plsk8 or plsk9 machines When: Sat 11/June/2016 9:15am Plesk hosting platform became unresponsive at approx 9.15am this morning. Support Staff attempted to restart the server remotely but access was not restored. DataCentre Technicians …

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May 31

COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance: OVZBudget03

Outage: ovz-budget-03.vps.astutium.com What: Intermittent connectivity issues accessing Virtual Private Servers on the ovz-budget-03 server caused by excessive CPU Load and Data-Transfer levels Affects: All customers with OVZ virtual machines on ovz-budget-03.vps.astutium.com. When: Ongoing This issue is under investigation, initial findings indicate one-or-more exploited virtual servers causing connectivity problems to other virtual machines on the same …

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Feb 01

COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: Astutium Website and Client Portal

Planned Maintenance: Astutium Website and Client Portal Rollout of new features and fixes When is this maintenance: Starting Monday 1st February 2016 10:00 Completing Monday 1st February 2016 18:00 What is being done: * Upgrade to latest versions of Operating System * Security enhancements to Client Portal * Changes to new version of Smarty & …

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Dec 01

COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: HSPhere Hosting Services

Planned Maintenance: HSphere Hosting Services Patches for OS and Replacement of Hardware When is this maintenance: Starting Thursday 3rd December 2015 18:00 Completing Monday 7th December 2015 06:00 What is being done: * Upgrade to latest versions of Operating Systems where supported * Additional RAM to motherboard maximum supported levels for all shared-hosting services * Standardisation …

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Nov 19

COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: Shared Hosting Services

Planned Maintenance: Shared Hosting Services Patches for OS / Control Panels and Upgrades to Hardware What is being done: * Upgrade to latest versions of Operating Systems, Control Panels, Script Installers and System Addons * Additional RAM to motherboard maximum supported levels for all shared-hosting services * Standardisation of hosting server specifications across all platforms …

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Oct 28

COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: EU Minecraft Server Maintenance

Minecraft Server Maintenance from: Friday 30th October 2015 12:00 to: Friday 30th October 18:00   As part of our regular service refresh and ongoing updates to improve performance, we are in the process of replacing a number of acquired, legacy and older minecraft systems with faster and more capable new hardware. This will allow for …

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Oct 18

COMPLETED: Downtime: MiniVPS OVH SSD Server

Downtime: MiniVPS OVH SSD Server The minivps ovz ssdfr1 server is currently offline/not responding What is being done: We are waiting on OVH support to restart the server and determine the status of the machine Who is affected: Clients with … OVZ-SSD-FR services from MiniVPS on servers/systems: ssd1fr Once the machine is returned to service …

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Oct 03

COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance – DNP1W2K8

DotNetPanel Your Windows Control Panel

COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance: DotNetPanel Hosting Server DNP1Win2K8 What is being done: Follwing a fault with service not correctly starting in windows a hard reboot of the server was necessary. Server is now failing at boot unable to read from sections of the drives/array. Replacement of SSD primary drives necessary before reinstallation/repair of Windows Core 2k8 …

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