28Jul2014

CO.ZA Registry Maintenance – 31 July

CO.ZA Registry Maintenance - 31 July

The CO.ZA Registry has scheduled system maintenance for  Thursday 31 July between 18:00 and midnight SA Standard Time. We regret that we will be unable to process new CO.ZA domain registrations or updates during this time.

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25Jul2014

Registry change for ORG.ZA

Registry change for ORG.ZA

Major changes are coming to ORG.ZA domains. Until now, the ORG.ZA space was administered by Internet Solutions, registrations were limited to non-profit organisations, and there were no annual renewal fees. Domain updates used a email system with a complicated email template. All of this is changing soon…

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23Jun2014

SMTP failures for MWeb subscribers – June 23

SMTP failures for MWeb subscribers - June 23

MWeb previously silently redirected SMTP traffic to third parties (like Anno) from port 25 to 587. It appears like this service is failing or have been discontinued. If you are an MWeb subscriber, please use port 587 instead to connect to our SMTP servers. See our Knowledgebase article for more email troubleshooting tips.

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3Apr2014

Server WWW-19 Problem – 1 April

Server WWW-19 Problem - 1 April

This is to confirm that we have been experiencing severe problems with Linux server WWW-19 today. At two occasions, once this morning (SA time) and once this afternoon, the server froze and we had to perform emergency reboots.

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30Mar2014

Server WWW-19 Network Problem – 30 March

Server WWW-19 Network Problem - 30 March

This is to confirm that Linux server WWW-19 has been experiencing network connectivity problems since late on Saturday. Right now most of the websites on the server are inaccessible and (depending on the IP address used) the email service may appear unavailable too.

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