28Jan2015

Emergency Maintenance of all Linux Servers – 28 January

A significant Linux vulnerability that affects most Linux servers was announced yesterday. We are currently systematically patching and rebooting all our Linux servers in the next few hours to address the vulnerability.

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26Jan2015

Winter Storm Juno

Winter Storm Juno

We received some comforting words of assurance today from the data centre where we host our Client Portal and primary name service. They are ready to weather the storm (pun intended) that is imminent.

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21Jan2015

WWW-19 Server Replacement – 23 and 24 January

WWW-19 Server Replacement – 23 and 24 January

We have rescheduled the replacement of Linux server WWW-19 with a new server to occur on Friday and Saturday 23 and 24 January.

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20Jan2015

WWW-24 Outage – 20 January

WWW-24 Outage - 20 January

Windows server WWW-24 was inaccessible for about one hour between 11:00 and 12:00 GMT.

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5Jan2015

SMTP failures for Vodacom subscribers – 5 January

Vodacom has decided to follow the lead of iBurst and MWeb to (for some of their data packages) block SMTP access to third parties (like Anno) on port 25. If you are a Vodacom subscriber, please use port 587 instead to connect to our SMTP servers. Alternatively send your email through Vodacom’s SMTP server at smtp.vodacom.co.za or smtp.vodamail.co.za. See […]

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