News
Backup Service Upgrade
We are upgrading the platform upon which our R1Soft backups run, so these will be unavailable for the next few hours.
LetsEncrypt Issues
We've had some issues with letsencrypt caused by google timing out searching for CAA records. This was caused by very strict rules on our DNS servers that have now been relaxed. Hopefully, this will be the end of the issue.
All of our hosting support HTTP3
Always on the cutting edge, we've upgraded all of our hosting to support HTTP3, QUIC & of course HTTP2 and HTTP. So whether you are supporting cutting-edge connectivity or a legacy app, we have you covered.
Node versions changed
node.js v14 has been added to the versions of node we can host. Th default version has now been changed from v10 to v12.
Minor outtage this morning.
Systems were taken down to increase the disk instance sizes. We noticed some issues where some sites were returning 503 notices, as they were using LiteSpeed caching and the cache disk looks to have been suffering.
Non European Whitelabel Names Coming....
Our servers will be rename shortly to be white-labelled name as to not give away that they belong to UnixGuru.
OVH Outtage
OVH, the company upon whose infrastructure our hosting sits, is having a major outage in their Strasbourg datacentres, however, these particular datacentres are not currently used by UnixGuru, so our services are unaffected.
Rebooting cluster cloud to load new kernel
Cloud2 through Cloud11 will be rebooted in turn to update the kernel as we are stuck on a beta kernel, which kernel care is not updating.
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.