21Feb2020

Cape Town network outage – 21 February

Cape Town network outage - 21 February

The Cape Town data centre experienced a network outage for almost one hour today.

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24Jan2020

W-29 Server Down – 14 January

W-29 Server Down - 14 January

Server W-29 in Dallas was unavailable for nearly an hour today due to a network outage at the data centre.

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15Nov2019

Rebooting all servers – 15 and 16 November

Rebooting all servers - 15 and 16 November

We are progressively rebooting all servers today to upgrade Linux kernels and install system updates. We are doing this to update recently released security patches and to address critical bug in a recent MariabDB server release.

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6Nov2019

W-29 MySQL Service Failure – 6 November

W-29 MySQL Service Failure - 6 November

An routine scheduled update left the of the MySQL service broken today for nearly four hours. All is back to normal again.

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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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