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We are scheduling a maintenance window for 23:00 tonight to perform a routine software upgrade on a firewall cluster in Dublin. This is a high availability cluster and the upgrades will be applied to the standby node. No customer impact is anticipated. Access to the Control Panel may be impacted for a few seconds as the firewall […]
The server pemvzmps142 hung and required a reboot. Services should now be back as expected.
EURid, the .eu domain name registry, will be conducting maintenance on November 4 between 0600 and 0900 CET. During this timeframe their EPP servers will be unavailable, so no new registrations, updates or transfers of .eu domain names will be possible. Existing .eu domain names will not be impacted.
We are scheduling an emergency network maintenance window for midnight tonight to restore connectivity to a core access switch in Dublin. This switch was removed from production this afternoon as a result of an ASIC failure on an adjacent switch. While every effort will be taken to minimise disruption, dedicated and shared hosting customers may experience […]