16Jul2019

WWW-30 Database Connection Errors – 16 July

WWW-30 Database Connection Errors - 16 July

The router to the MySQL database server failed today, resulting in database connection errors. We have restored the connection and all is back to normal.

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8Jul2019

Server WWW-29 offline – 8 July

Server WWW-29 offline - 8 July

Server WWW-29 is Dallas experienced a failed hard drive earlier today. After some downtime, the server is back in service again.

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13Jun2019

Cape Town Network Maintenance – 16 June

Cape Town Network Maintenance - 16 June

The Cape Town data centre will be performing network maintenance early on Sunday morning. All services will experience a brief interruption during the maintenance.

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21May2019

SQL-31 Server Maintenance – 22 May

SQL-31 Server Maintenance - 22 May

The MySQL server server that twins with Cape Town web server WWW-30 will be down for maintenance early on Wednesday morning.

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20May2019

Rebooting all servers – 20-21 May

Rebooting all servers - 20-21 May

We are progressively rebooting all servers today to upgrade Linux kernels and CPU microcode to the latest in an effort to patch the recent Intel security vulnerabilities.

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