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Mail Server issue’s on Mercury

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

There are mail issues at the current time due to a customer running a very large mailing list through the server. We have suspended the account in question and have temporarily suspend mail service until we can clear the mailq. Please note none of our shared hosting packages, email or web hosting are intended for […]

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System Reboots - Tonight

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

We carried out a number of hardware node reboots to load the latest Virtuozzo kernel. Some of the machines took longer to bounce back than expected as they had been up a long time, the machines forced a filesystem check, which due to the large arrays can take some time.
On the shared hosting stack, eris […]

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Telecity Redbus loose power.. again

Monday, March 12th, 2007

There was another major power outage at Telecity Redbus’s increasingly accident prone Sovereign House Data Centre today (12th March 2006). This will have affected a number of hosting providers. We are still awaiting an official explanation.
Fortuneatly we managed to get a tech onsite very quickly, but for a while he was locked outside while Telecity […]

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Network Maintenance - Tues 14th November 2006

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Outage - Reseller and VPS customers will notice a brief outage lasting 1-3 minutes whilst cables are switched between old and new distribution switches
Reason - The new Cisco 3750G distribution stack will increase both performance and redundancy of the distribution core.

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Memory Upgrades

Friday, October 27th, 2006

We will be carrying out memory upgrades this weekend. Affected servers so far include xena and eris. Weycrest will liase with data centre technicians to schedule off peak maintenance and will release more detailed information shortly.

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Xena FTP issue

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

There a brief issue with xena, one of cPanel Reseller Servers earlier this morning. Require a system reboot, followed by an FTP service restart.

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