The emergency maintenance was undertaken today between 15:43 and 15:47. Affected customers will have noticed a brief drop in their DSL connections.
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Broadband, Latest, Planned Maintenance
Emergency DSL Network Maintenance
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There will be a brief outage on part of our DSL network as we apply a patch to one of the network servers. The outage should not last more than 5 minutes and connections should re-establish automatically once the reboot has taken effect. We anticipate work to commence shortly after 15:45 today.
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Emergency Maintenance
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Emergency MaintenanceDue to a number of vulnerabilities being recently discovered in earlier versions of the Linux kernel, we are taking steps today to upgrade to the latest secure version of the linux kernel on our hosting servers. We will make every effort to minimise the down time and disruption to your account, but please be…
Planned Maintenance
Router Upgrades
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During the maintenance window on Friday 11th August we will also take the opportunity to upgrade one of our core routers. This may result in brief pause in routing as new mac addresses are learned. Coupled with the upgrade and reboot of switches this should keep any physical outage / down time to a minimum.
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Network Maintenance
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We are planning to upgrade the firmware on a number of our switches during the routine maintenance window Friday morning (11th August 2006). This work should take place between 02:00 and 04:00 and will result in brief outages whilst switches reboot.
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.ORG registry maintenance
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Bulletin Board, Hosting, Latest
Plesk 8 and Safe Mode
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Safe mode is a security feature designed to ensure that your site and our servers do not become compromised. It is a method of protecting access to variables and “secure data” within your PHP scripts. As of Plesk 8 you are now able to control the safe_mode setting on a per domain / web site…
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VZ Server Issues
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One of our Virtuozzo servers experienced some technical difficulties this morning and required a reboot. We are investigating these issues at this time and hope to know more later today. As a precautionary measure we are moving VPS’s hosted on this server across onto other members of the VZ farm. There will be a brief…
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Maintenance over run
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Last nights scheduled maintenance over ran slightly this morning due to some technical issues with minor security upgrades. As a result psa02 and psa05 were unavailable for periods between 9:15am and 10:15am whilst remedial action was undertaken to resolve these issues
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ADSL Network Upgrade
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The second 622Mbit link to BT Central has now gone live. Customers should notice enhanced / increased speed on their connections as a result. This upgrade is slightly overdue as a result of delays at the BT engineering side, however we are pleased that it has now gone live!