Announcements

XEN24 RAID Card Replacement

  • 21st May 2016
XEN24 RAID card is not responding to commands but the server is working fine.  At 12.01am on Sunday 22 May 2016 the server will be powered down and the RAID card and all drive cables will be replaced with new ones.We anticipate this being routine maintenance and we thank you for your patience while we fix this faulty hardware.As a precaution ...
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Xen30 down for maintenance

  • 5th May 2016
The XEN30 node started showing some issues with dom0 showing stress from arcconf requests stalling on the RAID card.  12.40am:  The server was rebooted but is not coming back on line. It's not booting yet.  We may need to replace the RAID card.1.10am:The data centre remote hands have been asked to hook up a recovery session so we can see why ...
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.com Domain Name Charges

  • 3rd May 2016
This is a notice to inform you that our .com domain names are increasing by 40 pence due to our supplier costs increasing and increased admin costs associated with new ICANN verification rules.  We have kept this cost increase to the absolute minimum.  The average cost of a .com domain from 8 of the best known UK suppliers is £10.77 + VAT for ...
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Server 18 Emergency Upgrade

  • 18th April 2016
Server 18 has been struggling with Ram Exhaustion.  We are taking the server off line at 11am this morning to double the RAM.  This is emergency maintenance to allow us to stabilise this server.  Once we stabilise it we will look at options moving forward whether that be a new server or moving the highest use clients elsewvere.We apologise for ...
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