Category: Shared Hosting

COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance – HSphere/Win6

Emergency Maintenance: Win6 What: Software/Failure Affects: HSphere Web Hosting Services Provided By Win6 When: Wednesday 18th June 2014 10:00 – ongoing Unfortunately thorugh several security issues, both with HSphere itself and customer applications, web hosting services provided by this server cannot be immediately recovered.  As such we are accelerating our plans to migrate customers to …

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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: Emergency Maintenance – cPanel3

Emergency Maintenance: Disk Check What: Following a forced reboot we are running a disk check. Affects: All services provided by cPanel3 server. When: Friday, 24th January 2014 15:55 All hosting (web/email) services hosted on cPanel3 server will be unavailable whilst the disk check is running.

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: Emergency Maintenance – EnsimWin1 (Thomas)

Emergency Maintenance: Hosting EnsimWin1 (Thomas) What: Failure of Hosting Server EnsimWin1 Affects: Resellers/customers with websites on EnsimWin1 When: 2013/11/19 13:09 Update 1: 17:00 service has been restored – if you have further problems please raise a support ticket.

COMPLETED: Emergency Maintenance – HSphere

Emergency Maintenance: Power What: Migrating to alternate power feed. Affects: HSphere hosting services. When: Friday, 25th October 2013 17:00 – Friday, 25th October 2013 17:15 The HSphere servers will be powered down and moved to an alternate power feed. MySQL/MSSQL and web services will be unavailable for a short period of time whilst they are …

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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: Emergency Maintenance – Plesk 3

Unfortunately hosting server platform Plesk-3 has failed beyond repair. This will be affecting any services (email, ftp, web, mysql) you had running on that server. Technicians are working on restoring our last good backup to new hardware, however this is likely to take several days at least. You have 2 options, and we would be …

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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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