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…
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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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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!
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8MB DSL Service now live
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We now have two 8Mbit DSL services available. Office – up to 8Mbit download speed and up to 800kb/sec upload speeds Home – up to 8Mbit download speed and up to 400kb/sec upload speeds Contact sales@fido.net for more information Prices start from just £29.99/month including VAT
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New Peering
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We have now enabled new peering sessions which grant us closer / direct access to LINX, AMS-IX, DE-CIX, and shortly SFINX This provides considerable more stability and diversity to our networks!