Category: Planned Maintenance

Planned Maintenance Tasks

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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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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COMPLETED: Scheduled Maintenance: US Minecraft Servers

Scheduled Maintenance: US Minecraft servers What: Migrating US Minecraft servers to new hardware. Affects: US Minecraft servers When: Monday, 26th August 2013 12:00 – Monday, 26th August 18:00   As part of our review of the Astutium (inc Othello and EliteHosting) MineCraft Hosting Services following the launch of 1.6.x, we are going to be migrating our US Minecraft Servers to …

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COMPLETED: Scheduled Maintenance: Astutium Ltd US network

Scheduled Maintenance: Astutium Ltd US network. What: Software upgrades on the network routers and switches. Affects: US Website Hosting, US Dedicated Servers, US Virtual/Cloud Servers and US (All) and UK (Multicraft access only) Minecraft Gaming Services. When: Thursday, August 22, 2013 from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. GMT   Planned maintenance on the Astutium Ltd US network will occur on 22/August/2013, …

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COMPLETED: Scheduled Maintenance: hSphere Mail Cluster

Disk Array Maintenance: hSphere Mail Cluster We have identified a failing member of the disk array behind the hSphere Mail Cluster.  Unfortunately due to the nature of the shared storage mail service must be interrupted to replace this member and rebuild the data to prevent any loss of stored e-mail.  Affected customers will be unable …

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COMPLETED: Scheduled Maintenance – Migration of Virtual Private Servers (VPS-OVZ) to new Hardware

Migration to new OVZ/VPS Hardware As part of our ongoing processes of QA, Monitoring and Upgrading of equipment, it is time to “retire” some of the Virtual Private Server (VPS/OVZ) systems (including several from Mergers-&-Acquisitions) and move those client VPS onto new machines. Additionally ALL OpenVZ Virtual Server clients will be able to access the …

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Server Maintenance: DC Hosting (All servers)

Server Maintenance: All DC Hosting Services What: Updating Operating System packages and restarting servers. Affects: All customers with websites and email services for DC Hosting customers. When: 2012/10/31 19:00 to 21:00

COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance : Cooling : Chiller Introduction

New RoofTop Chiller

Planned Maintenance : Cooling : Chiller Introduction What: Introduction into the live cooling circuit of new rooftop Aircon Chiller ref 2:2 Who (Affects): Building Facilities – Non Service Affecting When (start, end): Thursday 26th July 10:00 – 18:00 and Friday 27th July 10:00 – 18:00 Why: In order to extend the Othello PremierDC DataCentre facilities, …

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COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: H-Sphere hsphere-linwebs1.othellohosts.net server migration

What: Migrate data to a new server. Who (affects): All H-Sphere customers with sites hosted on server hsphere-linwebs1.othellohosts.net will be unable during the migration. When: starting Monday 16 July 2012 21:00 completing Monday 16 July 2012 22:00 Why: Increase server resources.