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Overall up-time for the for July 2012 was 99.948%. 18 of 26 servers had 100% uptime.

We have scheduled hardware maintenance scheduled for the server ‘jonah’ on 4-Aug-2012. The maintenance is scheduled to begin at 11:00 PM Central US time. We expect the server to be down for approximately one hour. We will update this post when the maintenance is completed.

A new build of cPanel/WHM is being released to all tiers tonight to address CVE-2012-2978. CVE-2012-2978 addresses an issue with NSD (an authoritative DNS server) which did not properly handle non-standard DNS packets. A patch has been supplied by NLNet Labs.

About 11:50 PM Central US time we detected an error on lizzie.umbrahosting.com (one of our shared hosting servers). A file system had detected an error and switched into read-only mode. To correct the problem we had to reboot the server and run a file system consistency check. That check is currently running. We expect the […]

Having the correct time on your server is important for both you and your clients. The problem is that the locks on most servers tend to drift a bit. This can cause problems with your clients sites (forum posts, for example can get out of order if the time drifts a lot) or if you […]

Just a quick announcement to celebrate the launch of our new web site.