Most of our domains migrated successfully yesterday during the allotted maintenance window. A number needed further nudging and cajoling, and several required a gentle kick. By this morning there were only 4 websites left with a temporary redirect. We’re still…
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We’ve set a maintenance window of around 1 hour at 2pm Thursday 13th August. In the run up all website owners are requested to keep away from the administration area. Updates right up to the wire may not get transferred,…
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Background Since 2010 our hosting partner has been a York based company, Bytemark. We’re planning to move to a new host based in Cambridge, called Mythic Beasts. Our infrastructure will remain in the UK.
Problems, like buses, tend to come one after the other. Over the last week we experienced some intermittent hits on our servers that put quite a strain on the database, following a stalled unscheduled reboot incident last Friday evening (and…
We’ve not experienced many problems over the years, but this one meant that we were offline for much longer than ever before and considerable sleep was lost. The problem manifested itself after the server was restarted and ground to a…
You want your own domain, it’s cheap isn’t it? One extreme case I got hired to help out with had purchased over 20 domains for a brand new initiative. It had sunk a lot of money into the new initiative,…