Weycrest.Com Support Status

This is the September monitoring report provided. We hope to automate this with a dynamic status page hosted on an independent web site, as we intend to be completely transparent about our hosting performance:
Please note if you see less than 100% service it doesn’t mean a total outage, but perhaps only the loss of […]

This afternoon we have suffered a major network outage which took our some shared hosting on the mercury server and some reseller and VPS hosting currently housed in IP House.
This was caused by a failure of a bgp4 router which has now been replaced. Delays were exacerbated by London traffic which delayed getting a network […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

SWsoft have just announced the release of Service Pack 1 for Virtuozzo for Linux. This includes improved tools and features including:

Red Hat Enterprice Linux 4.0 Support
Ethernet Layer Network Adapter Support
VLAN Support
Virtual CPU Management

Our VPS Hardware Nodes have been upgraded with the new tools. We have also implemented secure /tmp (using the bindmount function) in all […]

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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Another fairly convincing email that appears to come from Barclays Bank but doesn’t. It actually directs to a scam site using subdomains of thirdt.info.

.info domains are now getting an underserved “reputation” largely because of special promotions making them extremely cheap to register, so favoured by spammers, and sploggers.

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There are many Ebay “Phishing” Emails circulating. Many appear quite convincing if you are a busy on Ebay. The latest pretend to be genuine buyers asking questions about Items. In this case its a TH-42PV60 Panasonic Viera HD Ready TV. Unless you are selling such an item, ignore and don’t click..If you are, handle - […]

Be wary of yet another Paypal Phishing Scam coming in the form of an email, allegedly circulated by “GE Bank” offering you a new Paypal Credit Card with a credit limit of $6000.

This one is slightly more subtle in that the email (using Paypal Logo’s and colours) invites you to “login” for assistance, or to […]