11Jul2019

You seem to have trust issues…

Out of the blue today, iPhone and Mac users are reporting trust problems in their email apps. Instead of seeing their new email messages, they are met with an error message “cannot verify server identity”.

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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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