19th Nov 2018
Server 44 Software Upgrade and Reboot
Server Name: server44.bigwetfish.co.uk
As part of our continuing efforts to keep our platform secure we need to update the software on the host node server 44 resides on and reboot the node after the update. We plan to complete this work on Tuesday 19 November 2018 between 8pm and 11pm. We do not expect there to be significant downtime and we ...
25th Oct 2018
Shared Server 26 Outage
9.20amApproximately 20 minutes ago we received reports that MySQL was down on this server. A senior system administrator is working on this now. We've had to temporarily stop Apache on the server to keep the load down while we repaired some databases. We'll have the server back on line as quickly as we can and apologise for the blip in ...
20th Aug 2018
XEN38 RAID Emergency Rebuild
Monday 20 August - 1.55pmEverything is back on line. Monday 20 August - 1.30pmWe're at 55% RAID rebuild now. Your patience is appreciated. Monday 20 August - 1pmXen38 node was showing issues with the RAID array that we wanted to address quickly to help prevent any more serious issues. This machine houses 2 client servers and 1 server is ...
29th Jun 2018
XEN39 Server RAID Issues
Update 7.30am:This was a unique situation last night. Drive failures in servers are commonplace and that is why we have hot swap drives in arrays. You swap teh drive, the array rebuilds and clients rarely notice. Last night we placed drive 0 in the array and the array was rebuilding when drive 1 reported as failed. We removed the new drive ...
