Fido.Net Status Updates

Author: jon

VZ host maintenance

vpsh3 is currently experiencing storage array problems. Our engineers are working hard to resolve this problem however it will be 2-3 hours before the server is restored. We were able to migrate most of the servers hosted on this platform onto alternative servers, however there were a handful which could not be migrated. Those servers…

VZ – vpsh2 – unscheduled outage

vpsh2 has just started to exhibit memory related problems. The server required a reboot and we are now continuing to monitor the server for any other abnormal behaviour. We are in the process of rolling out 2 additional VZ servers, these with Dual Processor, Quad Core Xeon servers, and we hope to have these live…

Control Panel offline

The control panel is currently offline following an unplanned reboot. Whilst the server has rebooted there is a large amount of storage to sanity check and we are waiting for “fsck” to finish running. We hope normal service will be restored by 21:00 hours. **UPDATE** The disk repair is taking considerably longer than anticipated. At…

Kernel Updates

We are planning on rolling out kernel patches to the Virtuozzo servers Wednesday evening (3rd). This will result in VPS’s hosted on the Virtuozzo environment being unavailable for up to 30 minutes at a time whilst the servers reboot. Maintenance is scheduled to commence at 01:00 and should be completed by 04:00 During this time…

Windows Updates

Our windows hosting platforms are undergoing patching at this time and services hosted on these Windows servers will be unavailable whilst the patches are installed and the servers are rebooted. We will post again when the latest updates have been installed and normal service is resumed. UPDATE @ 22:15 08/09/07 10 of our 11 windows…

Plesk Server Maintenance

Routine diagnostics have spotted problems with libraries on both psa03 and psa04 We have taken the view that it will be quicker to rebuild and restore these servers from snapshots than to attempt to rescue the rather old Fedora Core 2 libraries – especially as both of these servers are overdue for an upgrade. With…