Fido.Net Status Updates

Author: jon

Router Failure

We are currently experiencing intermittent problems with a router in London-1 The problem initially presented at approximately 21:59 and was restored by 22:05 however a further failure has now occurred at approximately 22:45 Engineers are en route to site to investigate fully, and more information will be posted once we have a better understanding of…

VPS Host Maintenance

We are currently performing maintenance on vpsh1 and as a result a small number of VPS containers are currently unavailable. This maintenance is essential to ensure the continued high performance of this server, and we are working to keep the maintenance window as short as possible. vpsh1 is currently expected to return to service at…

relay-1 rebooting

relay-1 has been exhibiting some strange behaviour this morning, which appears to be a mixture of a memory leak, a large nigerian spam and someone attempting to break through security barriers on the machine. As a precaution and as we needed to reboot to clear the memory leak anyway, we have upgraded the kernel and…

Emergency Maintenance – London 1

Monitoring has detected a faulty power distribution unit in London-1 (Hex) Our engineers are currently en route with a replacement unit, which they expect to be able to install around midnight tonight. During this emergency maintenance window customers may notice a period of network instability, and certain servers will become unavailable as they are rebooted…

Web Server IP Address Change

The following has been sent to affected customers following the failure of one of our dedicated virtual servers. If your web site is no longer responding and you manage your own DNS then most likely it is as a result of this emergency maintenance:

Following on from our recent notification of upgrades, which were originally scheduled for this weekend, it became necessary to migrate your web hosting to the new server ahead of schedule overnight.