Rob Golding

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RFO 150320: Reason For Outage – 20/March/2015

Astutium would like to apologise for the unplanned outage to some services earlier this morning. What went wrong? At approximately 8.56am, a management card failed and then proceeded to stop switching and passing traffic which affected some customers: on single homed connections on our shared hosting platform on the legacy virtual private server OVZ on …

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COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance – CPanel08

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Planned Maintenance: cPanel08 Hosting Server Planned Maintenance: cPanel08 Hosting Server Replacement Drives, Migration of Data and Hardware Upgrades What is being done: Replacement of SSD Hard Drives and Migration of all existing data to the new disks, following the check/repair/analysis of other hosting servers (see Emergency Maintenance – CPanel06 on 16/November) we are continuing the …

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COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance – CPanel10

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Planned Maintenance: cPanel10 Hosting Server Planned Maintenance: cPanel10 Hosting Server Replacement Drives, Migration of Data and Hardware Upgrades What is being done: Replacement of SSD Hard Drives and Migration of all existing data to the new disks, following the check/repair/analysis of other hosting servers (see Emergency Maintenance – CPanel06 on 16/November) we are continuing the …

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CANCELLED: Planned Maintenance – CPanel08

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Planned Maintenance: cPanel08 Hosting Server Planned Maintenance: cPanel08 Hosting Server Replacement Drives, Migration of Data and Hardware Upgrades What is being done: Replacement of SSD Hard Drives and Migration of all existing data to the new disks, following the check/repair/analysis of other hosting servers (see Emergency Maintenance – CPanel06 on 16/November) we are continuing the …

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COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance – CPanel09

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Planned Maintenance: cPanel09 Hosting Server Planned Maintenance: cPanel09 Hosting Server Replacement Drives, Migration of Data and Hardware Upgrades What is being done: Replacement of SSD Hard Drives and Migration of all existing data to the new disks, following the check/repair/analysis of other hosting servers (see Emergency Maintenance – CPanel06 on 16/November) we are continuing the …

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COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance – CPanel06

Planned Maintenance: cPanel06 Hosting Server Emergency Maintenance: cPanel06 Hosting Server Replacement Drives, Migration of Data and Hardware Upgrades What is being done: Replacement of SSD Hard Drives and Migration of all existing data to the new disks, following the check/repair/analysis from Emergency Maintenance – CPanel06 on 16/November, and reconfiguration of caching, intrusion-detection systems, extra firewalling …

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COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance – CPanel11

Emergency Maintenance: cPanel11 Hosting Server Replacement Drives, Migration of Data and Hardware Upgrades What is being done: Replacement of SSD Hard Drives and Migration of all existing data to the new disks, in order to stabilise an intermittent Disk-IO/Load issue, addition of more RAM and reconfiguration of caching, intrusion-detection systems, extra firewalling and other tweaks. …

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COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: cPanel Hosting Servers

Planned Maintenance: cPanel Hosting Servers Upgrades to latest control panel and standardisation of mailserver configurations What is being done: Upgrade of cPanel/WHM to latest version – fixes bugs with … * under-reported quotas * mailman mailing list urls/ownership * missing disk/bw stats * standardisation of imap mailserver configurations Who is affected: Clients with Linux Hosting …

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COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: Media Hosting Servers – Replacing backup target drives

Planned Maintenance: Media Hosting Servers Replacing backup target drives What is being done: Replacing backup target drives. Who is affected: Clients with Media Hosting Services (video hosting, ffmeg hosting, radio station hosting, shoutcast streaming) on servers: media1 media2 cPanel07 legacy server cheapffmeg The servers will be unavailable for around 15 minutes during the maintenance window. …

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COMPLETED: Upgrades to CPanel/WHM Shared Hosting Servers

All CPanel/WHM Linux Shared Hosting Servers have been updated to the latest CPanel/WHm Control Panel 11.44.0.x Softaculous Script Installer Astutium Website Builder – rvsitebuilder The cpanel/whm updates and patches include a number of security fixes and bug fixes plus performance enhancements to the latest version of PHP The softaculous upgrade brings the ability to install …

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