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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 […]
We are performing maintenance on rack C05 which contains some dedicated servers. We will be swapping PDUs in this rack (one at a time) and have prepared all devices in the rack with dual power supplies. No impact is expected to services. date : 10.04.2025 time : 07:00 duration 1 hour service impact: No […]
We will be performing maintenance tonight 02.04.2025 at 21:00 , on our domain registration platform. There will be a 30-60 minute outage whilst the node is rebooted and services impacted are as follows domain availability checks domain registrations domain updates and renewals the whois /RDAP services will be offline for the duration The expected outage […]