Category: Reseller Hosting

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: Emergency Maintenance: Hsphere-Win4 Hsphere-Win6 Windows/ASP Hosting Hsphere Cluster (websites)

Emergency Maintenance: Hsphere-Win4 Hsphere-Win6 Windows/ASP Hosting Hsphere Cluster (websites) What: Security patching, hardenening and new firewall rules Affects: Resellers/customers with websites HSPhere Cluster London1 Servers Win4 and Win6 When: 2014/04/10 06:00 – 12:00 Due to repeated attacks against the servers Win4 and Win6 we are implementing additional security measures and new firewall rules to ‘keep …

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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: HSphere Hosting

Scheduled Maintenance: HSphere Hosting What: Migration of HPshere Servers to new Power System Affects: UK HSphere Email and Website Hosting When: Friday, October 11, 2013 from 14:30 to 15:30 GMT Planned maintenance by the datacentre on the power to some racks will occur on 11/October/2013, which will have short-term impact on all HSphere Hosting Services …

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COMPLETED: PHP Upgrade – cPanel Services

Due to major security issues with the currently deployed version of the PHP runtime, and the appearance of 0-day exploits for these issues; we have been forced to upgrade PHP to the latest 5.4 branch on all cPanel services. For most up-to-date pre-packaged applications, this should have no effect.  However, custom sites, modules for pre-packaged …

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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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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: 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 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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