News
Small Outage
We rebooted the unixguru.co.uk webserver after increasing the cloud instance size. Also customers on the cloud9.netip.eu cloud instance should know that their server has changed name to cloud9.unixguru.co.uk. Please change your nameservers to ns1 and ns2.unixguru.co.uk at your registrar if your ...
.eu nameservers have been suspended
As UnixGuru is a UK entity, .eu domains have been suspended, so nameservers will need to be switched at your registrars to ns1.unixguru.co.uk and ns2.unixguru.co.uk
VPS - Upgrade for Large Clients Only
We've stopped supplying VPSs to the public and will now only supply them to existing customers where they have outgrown our Elastic Hosting solutions.
R1Soft Outtage
After a brief outage during a system version upgrade of the R1Soft backup system, we can confirm that it is working again!
Maintenance Performed Today
See what was done in more detail https://unixguru.info/maintenance/
PHP 7.4 is the default for all new accounts
Inline with WordPress, we have switched the default verion of PHP to 7.4.x
MySQL Issue being rectified
There is currently an issue with MySQL/MariaDB, which we are looking at actvely. We will update this new item when we've diagnosed/fixed the issue. The filesystem containing the MySQL database got dismounted, so no databases would function. Trying to restart the database, caused a "new ...
MailScanner replaces SpamAssassin
We have replaced SpamAssassin with MailScanner, which is a far superior product and gives more granular control over the blacklisting and whitelisting of domains and email addresses as well as giving the administrators a better understanding of what is happening on the server.
LetsEncrypt Renewal Change
Previously if a person "moved away" a domain, but left it configured, LetsEncrypt would try to renew the SSL certificate every day until the renewal was disabled. We have now changed this, so we warn you that your renewal failed for 5 days, after which we disable the renewal for that domain.