Server outage
One of our web servers (www10) is currently offline due to a hardware failure. The event started around noon. We are currently restoring the data to a new piece of hardware, ETA just over 1 hour.
One of our web servers (www10) is currently offline due to a hardware failure. The event started around noon. We are currently restoring the data to a new piece of hardware, ETA just over 1 hour.
Our monitoring systems detected a circuit failure between Bolton 1 and Manchester 2 locations, supplied by Virgin Media Business. A ticket has been lodged with the supplier for them to investigate a potential fibre fault. All traffic was automatically re-routed via our alternate path with Cable&Wireless in the meantime.
We’ve started to increase our AVS (anti-virus and anti-spam system) scanners recently. This is our latest scanner node, a HP BL465c quad quadcore Blade with 32GB of ram. While this might seem rather excessive for a bit of email scanning, the technology behind our scanners is very CPU and memory… Continue reading