25Sep2019

Mimecast email delivery problems – 25 September

Mimecast email delivery problems - 25 September

We are currently seeing delivery problems for email messages destined to Mimecast in Sout Africa. The typical response is “451 Open relay not allowed”. At this time the mimecast.co.za website redirect to mimecast.com is also not responding, suggesting that Mimecast is experiencing technical issues. Mimecast is a first-class email service. Many companies rely on them […]

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30Aug2019

Rebooting all servers – 30 and 31 August

We are progressively rebooting all servers today to upgrade Linux kernels and CPU microcode to the latest. We are doing this to patch the recently discovered vulnerability for Intel and AMD processors.

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31Jul2019

Important notification regarding your registered domain names

Important notification regarding your registered domain names

You may have received an email from Public Domain Registry about their domain registration agreement, and wonder what it’s all about.

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31Jul2019

If you can’t beat them, join them…

Shock waves went through the web hosting industry this month when cPanel Inc. (the authors of Web Host Manager and cPanel) announced a change in their license pricing structure. Not only are prices increasing dramatically, but cPanel Inc. gave very little notice of the price change.

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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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