Christmas & New Year arrangements 2017

Please note that the offices in Huntingdon will be closed between 5PM 22nd Dec and 9AM January 2nd 2018.

Over this period, urgent telephone support calls will still be answered when calling 0845 330 0666. Email support tickets will be handled intermittently, so if the need is urgent, please call the support line who will escalate if appropriate under the SLA.

Our supplier portals will also be “frozen” so we won’t be processing any new orders during this period.

We wish you all a restful & happy Christmas and New Year.

COMPLETED: possible ADSL/FTTC outages: THE maintenance 25/11/17

UPDATE: This work is completed

UPDATE: this should have read THE, apologies.

We are planning a UPS replacement in our data centre in THE following recent problems caused by it, as the rack appears to be at risk of a power loss whenever we work near it. We have a replacement and we plan to swap to that and then investigate at a later date the cause of the issue on the current UPS.

This will mean a brief downtime of some hardware in the rack.  Currently only ADSL/FTTC lines will be customer affecting there, which should just drop and then auto connect at another of our POPS. This will happen during the course of Saturday evening.

If after this work is completed and a router reboot, you’re still unable to connect, please contact support in the usual way.

COMPLETED: last Merula mail server upgrades

The email servers are being upgraded over the weekend starting late on Friday evening to a pair of faster mirrored servers. This won’t affect everyone but during the course of this migration email will appear to have disappeared from in-boxes but this isn’t any cause for concern and is merely a side-effect of the migration process.

No email will be lost; it’s just the final synching process needed to improve the mail-servers for everyone. During the course of the weekend the email should fully re-appear.

New email will be continue to be delivered  straight away – older emails will be restored as the sync process progresses. Any security certificate error messages can be safely ignored for the duration of this migration. These will disappear after both servers are finally fully synced

thos is work is completed if there are any issues with your mail please contact support via the normal routes ASAP.

Merula mail server upgrades

The email servers are being upgraded over the weekend to a pair of faster mirrored servers. During the course of this migration email will appear to have disappeared from in-boxes but this isn’t any cause for concern and is merely a side-effect of the migration process

No email has been lost – it is in the process of being synced. During the course of the weekend the email should fully re-appear.

New email will be delivered instantly – older emails will be restored as the sync process progresses. Any security certificate error messages can be safely ignored for the duration of this migration. These will disappear after both servers are fully synced and updated.

We will confirm when this process has completed.