Announcements

Service Outage - 29/01/2011 - 20:15 to 20:50

  • 29th January 2011
At 20:15 this evening our external monitoring alerted us to a problem on our network which investigated immediatley. This was found to be due to a server that was subject to a denial of service attack which resulted in severe packet loss to our network. This attack was 1.4GB of traffic per second which meant our core routers became saturated ...
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VPS Maintenance Windows - 18/01/2011 @ 22:00GMT

  • 18th January 2011
We would like to notify you of a maintenance window on our VPS nodes to ensure long term stability of the nodes. This window will be today 18/01/2011 at 22:00GMT until 18/01/2011 22:30GMT to ensure minimal impact during off-peak hours. We appologise for the short notice of this work however it is essential that we complete this work ...
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Packet Loss - 02/10/2010

  • 2nd October 2010
You may have noticed during the past 20 minutes that some services were either slow or completley unresponsive if your service is on an IP begining 194.0.252. This was due to severe packet loss at the Kent Science Park. Our on call engineer was identified immeditley of the fault by our external monitoring services and raised the issue with the ...
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Mars DNS Issue

  • 20th September 2010
We are currently experiencing some DNS issues on Mars which is our main Windows shared hosting server. The issue may result in some websites currently not resolving to our web servers which has been caused by a corrupt database table where the DNS zones are held. We are currently working on restoring this table from a backup and then we will ...
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