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Cloud1 is experiencing a DDoS attack

We are seeing a network attack aimed at our Cloud1 infrastructure, our engineers are working to mitigate it. Services affected  – all cloud VMs are affected at the moment. We are continuing to mitigate the attack – All hypervisors are affected and we are rebooting as required. Update: The issue is ongoing, not all VMs […]

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Scheduled Emergency maintenance in our Carlow Data Centre Friday Oct 30th starting at 23:00

We have scheduled a maintenance window to remediate a critical electrical power issue in the Carlow Data Centre for Friday 30th October from 11:00 PM to 3:00 AM Saturday morning. The work requires a complete shutdown of electrical power to the Data centre for safety reasons because the electrical engineers will be replacing the Main […]

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Scheduled maintenance on our Cloud1 infrastructure due to multiple security vulnerabilities

We will be performing essential maintenance on our cloud infrastructure beginnning Thursday 29th due to the global release of information relating to multiple XEN vulnerabilites. This will require a shutdown of each VM on each hypervisor and consequently it will take some time to process all VMs These updates are required to protect the security […]

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