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We are scheduling a maintenance window to migrate several Shared Hosting VLANs to a new firewall cluster in Dublin. This will impact the following prefixes: 78.153.214.0/23 78.153.216.0/23 78.153.218.0/23 81.17.254.0/23 Update 2025-04-16: This maintenance has been brought forward and will now take place at the following time: Date: 2025-04-17 04:00 – 2025-04-17 07:00 BST (UTC+1) Data […]
There will be network maintenance affecting our shared hosting,running Plesk and Cpanel. This will be to allow networking to fail over to the backup connections. Affecting: Plesk/Cpanel hosting. Affected IPs: 78.153.209.5 -> 78.153.209.254. Duration 1 hour, Starting: Tuesday 15 April @ 7:30am Impact: Low – Not expecting any downtime, just at risk for the duration.
We are scheduling two maintenance windows to upgrade the software on rack switches attached to our Cloud platform in BT Citywest. The switches are configured in HA, so these are at risk maintenance windows only. Date: 2025-04-16 06:00 – 07:00 IST (UTC+1) Data Centre: BT Citywest Impact: Reduced Capacity – At risk only Date: 2025-04-17 […]
We will be performing maintenance on a network rack which contains the legacy qmail service as part of our ongoing switch upgrades. Services within this rack are being migrated to a new switch (on a port by port basis) and may experience a very brief outage. Date : 10.03.2025 from 06:00 a.m. duration : 1 […]