If you are an existing customer, please review the information below and if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Maintenance window:
Start: Monday 21st May 2012 – 21:00 BST
End: Tuesday 22nd May 2012 – 01:00 BST

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Description:
Installation of a new pair of core routers in the UK data centre (Smartbunker) to support the entire facility backhaul infrastructure.

Outage risk:
Possible short outages could occur during the maintenance window as routing updates. They say that any outage will be kept to a minimum and they hope to complete work with minimal disruption.

If you are an existing customer, please review the information below and if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Maintenance window:
Start: Monday 2nd April 2012 – 21:00 BST
End: Monday 2nd April 2012 – 23:00 BST

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Description:
Upgrade of routing within UK data centre (Smartbunker) core network.

Outage risk:
Several short outages could occur during the maintenance window as routing updates.

Reason for work:
This is the second of two maintenance events (please click here for details of the first).

This final work of the set is to make live a second gigabit fibre, further enhancing redundancy and resilience in the core network Internet connectivity at Smartbunker.

Updates:
2nd April 2012 22:45
Confirmation received from the data centre that the whole process went smoothly and completely as planned. Our independent monitoring showed 100% uptime for the whole duration, which is excellent. Another fantastic job by the UK data centre.

This is a minor security release.

If you have a Dedicated Server or Linux vserver with us that has phpMyAdmin installed, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to the latest version available for your current operating environment. phpMyAdmin is a common point of attempted entry to servers and old versions with known security vulnerabilities are prime targets.

All our main shared hosting systems have already been upgraded to this latest version, so clients with One Plan accounts (or older packages like Sblog, Vine, Bud & Tree) are already protected with this update.

Please refer to the upcoming PMASA-2012-1 announcement on http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/.

Source: http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=23067

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This is a bugfix release.

If you have a Dedicated Server or Linux vserver with us that has phpMyAdmin installed, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to the latest version available for your current operating environment. phpMyAdmin is a common point of attempted entry to servers and old versions with known security vulnerabilities are prime targets.

All our main shared hosting systems have already been upgraded to this latest version, so clients with One Plan accounts (or older packages like Sblog, Vine, Bud & Tree) are already protected with this update.

Source: http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=23067

You can follow the phpMyAdmin news RSS feed here:
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What’s Changing?

The Google Apps team recently added key features of Postini Message Security directly into the Google Apps control panel. The email features (including compliance footers, restricted email delivery, attachment controls, and more) are comparable to those offered with Google Message Security, and simpler to manage.

As a result, Google is deprecating the Postini Message Security service that is integrated with Google Apps accounts.

What’s Next?

Google are asking all Google Apps customers with integrated Postini Message Security to consolidate their email management settings in Google Apps and to remove Postini from their mail flow.

In the coming months, Google Apps customers will receive notifications from Google with instructions and a deadline for completing this transition for domains on their account.

It is also expected to see lower false positive rates for messages sent within your organization by using only Gmail’s spam filtering capabilities.

Resources:

FAQ: Postini to Google Apps Transition
Step-by-step Transition Guide (you will receive an email when your account is ready to transition)
New email filters in Google Apps: Blog post and setup article

Our first video is a presentation explaining the various options we have available for email service provision, and this can be viewed via YouTube or directly on our website by clicking here.

Amongst other information, this first video provides a good overview of the differences between our own email service and Google Apps for Business Gmail to assist clients in selecting the best email service for their individual needs.

We intend to add more videos in the future covering a whole variety of topics.

Watch this video on YouTube.

If you are an existing customer, please review the information below and if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Maintenance window:
Start: Wednesday 1st February 2012 – 21:00 GMT
End: Thursday 2nd February 2012 – 03:00 GMT

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Description:
Upgrade of routing within UK data centre (Smartbunker) core network.

Outage risk:
Several short outages could occur during the maintenance window as routing updates.

Reason for work:
To increase resilient backhaul network speed and decommission end of life legacy equipment. To simplify and future proof Internet connectivity at Smartbunker.

In a later maintenance window (within the next 6 to 8 weeks) a second gigabit fibre will be brought live, further enhancing redundancy and resilience in the core network Internet connectivity and completing the process.

Updates:
2nd February 2012 00:10
All is looking very well. Initial testing is showing we’re more than six times faster sending out than was possible yesterday and server monitoring is showing 100% uptime.

3rd February 2012
Confirmation received from the data centre that the whole process went smoothly and completely as planned. The old BT equipment that let them down so badly recently has now been powered off completely forever.

Fantastic job by the UK data centre and I’m sure, a sign of things to come; plans are on track to install another gigabit line around the end of March.