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A number of services in the Carlow data centre are currently showing as offline. An engineer is en route to investigate. We will update this post as soon as we have more information. Update :6:01 – We have restored services and are in the process of bringing dedicated servers back online – full service should […]
Summary: Thursday morning at 04:00 until 06:00 we’ll be performing back end DB maintenance on our platform. This involves a complete shutdown of the billing backend during this time frame. As the DB is 171GB in size, this work will take some time.
Summary: Wednesday morning at 04:00 until 06:00 we’ll be performing maintenance on our backend database. This requires us to switch the services off for the duration of this.
Two of our shared webservers – pemlinng006 and pemlinng007; will be brought offline for scheduled maintenance tomorrow night, Tuesday the 4th of October, at 23:00 Approximate downtime of 30-60 minutes is expected. This will affect all websites using the following IPs: 185.2.67.10 185.2.67.11 185.2.67.32 185.2.67.44 185.2.67.67 185.2.67.74 185.2.67.81 185.2.67.112 185.2.67.114 185.2.67.119 185.2.67.121 185.2.67.144 185.2.67.158 185.2.67.184 […]