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 …
Category: CPanel/WHM
Apr 10
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 …
Mar 25
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 …
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 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 This will have an impact on scripts that have not been coded to PHP standards or rely on outdated behaviours.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 …
Sep 03
Planned Maintenance : Hosting
Starts: 03/September/2011 16:00 GMT Ends: 24/September/2011 22:00 GMT Details: Essential server and systems maintenance on OthelloHosts.net shared hosting servers will be taking place throughout the weekend. Upgrade to latest version of Control Panel Upgrade to latest o/s version Upgrade to latest script installer Patch/fix Apache and PHP for latest exploits Add new RAM to upgrade …
Aug 23
Emergency Maintenance : Hosting : cpanel2
Customers with services provided by CPanel2 will be experiencing downtime this afternoon. This server has suffered an unknown failure without warning. At this point we do not have an exact length of the outage, however an engineer in en-route to diagnose the fault. We will keep customers up to date via this forum posting. Update …
Jun 20
Emergency Maintenance : Hosting : Stream2 – NIC Failure
We are aware of the issue regarding stream2.othellohosts.net/CheapFFMPEG services. At this stage it appears to be a NIC failure, an engineer in en-route to diagnose and correct. We will post more information once we have it. Update We apologise for the extended outage, the failure has been repaired.