Fido.Net Status Updates

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…

vpsh6 problems

vpsh6 – one of our virtuozzo servers – has been experiencing problems for most of the day, which has had the effect of rendering some sites inaccessible for periods of the day We are working on repairing the faulty server and bringing it back into service as quickly as possible. A number of sites /…

Emergency Maintenance

Maintenance has now been completed – we worked to keep any disruption to a minimum whilst replacing the faulty drives in this server – however would like to apologise to any customer affected whilst we worked on this server. ==== We have had to perform an emergency reboot of one of our hosting servers (vpsh6).…