Category: Planned Maintenance

Planned Maintenance Tasks

COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: cPanel Services Restart

As part of our commitment to continued high levels of service, we must announce the following planned maintenance work. When: Monday 9th July 00:00 – 02:00 BST (UTC +1) What: Services Restart Affects: All cPanel shared hosting servers (cPanel 1-6, stream2) Expected Outage: 5-15 minutes per server as it restarts to apply critical updates and …

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RESCHEDULED: Planned Maintenance: Hosting : Helm migration

What: Migration of existing Helm services onto new servers. Who (affects): This planned maintenance affects all Helm Personal and Business Hosting Accounts. When : starting Friday 29/June 2012 22:00 completing Saturday 30/June 2012 10:00 Why: The new server hardware is of higher specification and will allow us to provide more stability of the Helm services.   …

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COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: cPanel4 – Replacing backup target.

What: Replacing backup target. Who (affects): The server will be unavailable for around 5 minutes at the end of the maintenance window. When: starting Thursday 21 June 2012 20:00 completing Thursday 21 June 2012  21:30 Why: Increase available backup space.

COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: Ensim Linux 1 – IP Address Change

As part of our continued commitment to improving services it has become necessary to renumber this service. Any customer using ns1.this-dns.net and ns2.this-dns.net as nameservers on their domain will be updated automatically. Customers may encounter difficulties resolving their domains depending on the caching strategy employed by their connectivity supplier. What: Renumber of ensim1.othellohosts.net When: Friday …

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COMPLETED: Planned cPanel Upgrade

Following some reasonably major faults with the current ‘release’ version of cPanel, we are being forced to upgrade all shared servers to the new ‘current’ version. When: Saturday 21st 2012 – 09:00 onwards What: Out-of-cycle cPanel Upgrade Affects: cPanel, WHM and Webmail access for customers during the upgrade. No other services are affected. We expect …

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COMPLETED: Planned Migration: cpanel4.othellohosts.net

As part of our continued commitment to quality of service and uptime, this host must be replaced with more modern hardware and software combinations.  We have determined that the least disruptive method to handle this is to treat it in the same fashion as a foreign server migration. As such IP addressing of sites will …

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COMPLETED: Planned Maintenance: Level3 Router Replacement

We have been advised by Level(3) that they have a maintenance window planned 20 April 2012 01:00 – 04:00 BST where they will replace their London routing infrastructure.  This work will not cause a connectivity outage for any customer; however any connections through Level(3) at the point they perform their work may well be disconnected, …

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COMPLETED: Planned Migration: UKCloud Shared Hosting

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 …

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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 …

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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.