WWW-25 Outage – 3 January
While applying a new Linux kernel and cPanel version we encountered unexpected problems. Website and email services are now fully restored again.
Continue ReadingDegraded international connectivity to Cape Town data centre – 23 December
The upstream network is experiencing significant packet losses at the moment. Connections from international locations to website in Cape Town may be intermittently slow.
Continue ReadingWWW-26 Server Replacement – 23 and 24 October
We will replace Linux server WWW-26 shortly, with site migration occurring on Thursday through Saturday. The current server has served us reliably for nearly three years, but a recent problem with the integrity of the RAID array cannot be fixed without major service disruption.
Continue ReadingServer WWW-26 RAID Maintenance – 9 to 18 October
The RAID array on Linux server WWW-26 reporting errors. As a precautionary but essential measure, we are replacing both hard drives in the array.
Continue ReadingSpam filtering problem – 7 October
A misconfiguration in one of the SpamAssassin rules resulted in some incoming email to be incorrectly flagged as spam. This resulted in those messages to be denied delivery.
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