Server and System Status

The emergency maintenance on server NC023 started at precisely 20:00 UTC and was completed successfully by 20:23 UTC.

There is actually a third server that needs the same work as the two that have already been attended to. We will post our plan for that later today.

We have scheduled emergency maintenance this week for two of our servers to address a yet-to-be-published security vulnerability in the underlying virtualisation software these servers use.

The schedule is as follows:

• Server NC027: Wednesday 21 October 2015 at 02:00 UTC
• Server NC023: Thursday 22 October 2015 at 20:00 UTC

Please click on the dates and times to convert the time of the maintenance into your local time zone. Server NC023 is commonly referred to by those that use it as the “relay server”, and server NC027 is our primary mail server.

The maintenance window will be approximately two hours long, but often ends up being much shorter. During the maintenance window the servers and everything hosted on them will be inaccessible. Any incoming mail for domains hosted on the mail server will be queued on the sending mail servers until our mail server is back online; email will be delayed during this time, but not lost. You will be unable to send email or access the webmail during the maintenance window. No websites will be affected.

While we are aware that this maintenance is scheduled during part of the work day for some of our clients, we are unable to change that due to the demands of this effort. We sincerely apologise for that.

We will post updates here and in alerts on our website before, during and after the maintenance.

We appreciate your patience with our efforts to keep our infrastructure and yours secure. If you have any questions, please let us know. Thank-you.