Following our acquisition of UKCloud customers, we are in the process of migrating the shared hosting services to our own datacentre and servers. This process is currently underway and the main bulk of data transfers and updates will be completed by 12:00 BST 25th March 2012. Any domains using ns1.qvps.net and ns2.qvps.net will be migrated …
Category: Planned Maintenance
Planned Maintenance Tasks
Mar 15
COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance – LINX (Extreme LAN) Renumbering
What: As part of the expansion of LINX (the London Internet eXchange), we are required to change IP addressing and configuration with peering partners. When: Saturday 17th March 09:00 onwards. Affecting: This work is not expected to cause any issues, although the path traffic is routed along will change during the works. Othello has more …
Feb 20
COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: Hosting : CPanel Upgrades
What: RAM Updages on cpanel1.othellohosts.net, cpanel5.othellohosts.net and cpanel6.othellohosts.net. When: Thursday 23/Feb 20:00 – 21:00 Each server will be offline for less than 10 minutes. Affects: Clients with sites and/or email hosted on cpanel1.othellohosts.net, cpanel5.othellohosts.net and cpanel6.othellohosts.net. Actions: Replacing (increasing) server RAM.
Feb 20
COMPLETED: Interservers Server Upgrades and Server Migrations
What: Interservers Server Upgrades and Server Migrations When: Mon 20/Feb through Mon 28/Feb Affects: Clients on Interservers legacy hardware Actions: Migration of UK clients to new UK servers Updates of Server O/S and Control Panel Installation of new Softaculus Script installers. Clients who have their domain registered with Othello will not experience any downtime, and …
Jan 24
COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance/Upgrade – Client Portal
We will be upgrading the Client Portal (http://my.othellotech.net/) on 24/01/2012 between 18:00 and 19:00 UTC. During the upgrade existing clients will not be able to access the client portal features such as searching for viewing invoices etc. Access to individual hosting control panels etc will still be available directly as advised in your welcome email. …
Jan 20
COMPLETED: CentralNIC Planned Maintenance
CentralNIC have advised us of their annual database maintenance period. This is scheduled for 09:00 (GMT/UTC) Sunday January 29 2012. They did not provide a duration, however we expect the service to be considered at-risk until at least 13:00. During this period it will not be possible to register, renew or update (contacts or nameservers) …
Jan 16
COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance/Upgrade – PHP 5.3 (cPanel Servers)
Commencing 23rd January 2012 we will begin upgrading cPanel Servers to PHP 5.3. This will have an impact on scripts that have not been coded to PHP standards or rely on outdated behaviours. For most pre-packaged applications this should have no effect at all – with the exception of some upgrade choices becoming available. If …
Dec 13
COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: Hosting : CPanel/WHM Upgrades
What: Planned roll out of the latest version of centos, cpanel/whm and script-installers to shared-hosting, managed-dedicated, managed-cloud and managed-vps servers. Who (affects): This planned maintenance affects all OthelloHosts.net Personal-Cpanel Hosting Clients OthelloHosts.net Business-Cpanel Hosting Clients Managed Dedicated CPanel/WHM Servers Managed Dedicated CPanel/WHM VPS Managed Dedicated CPanel/WHM Cloud Servers When : starting Saturday 17/December 2011 01:00 …
Apr 08
Planned Maintenance : Midnight Software : Migration Status
We apologise to all former Midnight Software customers for the inconvenience, this hastily arranged migration was not our original plan and was a result of the business situation left by Midnight with their suppliers. The current migration status is: – HyperV VPS – being worked on OpenVZ – being worked on Cpanel Hosting – sites …