19cs December 2014
OpenVZ Reboots
Due to a recently discovered security vulnerability we have been rebooting our OPenVZ Nodes into a new Kernel. We apologise we did not announce the scheduling of these reboots. This vulnerability was advertised as being serious in nature so we did not want to advertise the fact in advance as prior to reboot the nodes were still vulnerable to ...
1st December 2014
Server 38 Outage
Update - The server is back on line and we are proceeding with the server move as previously planned for Tuesday Evening============================================We are aware that Server 38 is showing as down at this time. PLease see the following information.Big Wet Fish Hosting owns all our Shared Server bar one . Unfortunately Server 38 ...
19cs nov 2014
ENOM DNS Outage
12.10amJust an update. ENOM appear to have resolved these issues and we are seeing websites returning back to normal.Why were only some clients affected? - we use ENOM for our older name servers and we did not see any need to change thois even after we deployed our DNS cluster. The sites pointed to bwfdns.net name servers on our own ...
17cs nov 2014
Server 14 Emergency Maintenance Window
Server 14 is showing a degraded RAID array caused by a failed drive. We have swapped the failed drive but it is failing to rebuild.We need to take the server off line to perform some emergency maintenance. Our senior systems administrator will begin this work at 11pm UK time so the server will be taken off line within 30 minutes of that ...
