Announcements

Outage of SpamCop.net RBL affecting email routing for some clients

  • 1st February 2021
One of the RBLs / anti-spam black list server our mail servers monitor, as do many other providers, SpamCop.net by Cisco Systems suffered a major outage today affecting mail routing for some of our clients. The issue was caused by Cisco failing to renew a do main name the system relies on as reported at ...
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Upcoming WebEasy performance / database upgrades

  • 6th August 2019
Now the upgrade of  server mars.slightlydifferent.co.nz is complete as phase one of our improved WordPress hosting platform we are moving onto further optimisations of the WebEasy managed Wordpress network. At the moment everything is performing and scaling as it should with great response times.  However, we still want it to run even better.  ...
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Server upgrade - mars.slightlydifferent.co.nz

  • 5th August 2019
Due to increased loads on one of our servers we are carrying out some emergency upgrade work at 10pm tonight, 5/8/2019. This will necessitate several reboots and some brief periods of downtime during the scheduled period 10pm to 11pm. Services affected: All services hosted on the server Mars Our NZ WebEasy hosted WordPress network
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Server Upgrades - only affects some NZ customers

  • 28th April 2017
Starting at 7pm on Thursday 8th June we will be upgrading one of our older NZ servers; Venus.  Work should be complete by 11pm.During this time customers hosted on that server may notice some brief periods of downtime for both their web site and email although we will be working hard to keep this to a minimum.We will be taking full backups ...
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