We are planning to upgrade PHP to the latest version on UK1 and EU1 servers.
If you have any outdated scripts, such as WordPress, PHPBB, etc then please ensure that they are up to date to avoid any issues.
The upgrade is scheduled for the following times:
UK1: Monday 26th August, 2AM
EU1: Tuesday 27th August, 2AM
This will cause a moment of downtime, but if all goes well then it won’t be more than a few seconds.
Hello,
We are making some changes to the mailing list and need to delete all of the emails that are currently registered. Service updates were previously hosted on the same WordPress site. This resulted in 1000s of email addresses being hosted on the mailing list which has started to slow down delivery of important announcements – sometimes by several hours.
If you are using any of the following services then please re-subscribe your email address at http://status.bellonline.co.uk/mailing-list/
Web Hosting, Shoutcast, AutoDJ, Transcoding, Dedicated Servers (you can view a full list of categories on the site)
If you are using FreeStreamHosting.org then please don’t sign up for this mailing list, you will be sent another email shortly with further instructions.
As before, you will be sent a link to confirm your subscription and choose the categories you’d like to sign up to.
We recommend that you choose updates for the server(s) that you are hosted on to avoid receiving emails that don’t affect your service. If you are unsure about which server(s) you are on then please open a support ticket and we will be happy to get the information for you.
Regards,
Bell Online Ltd- http://status.bellonline.co.uk/
We have updated the server eu1.5net.co.uk to the latest version of cPanel and PHP. Some customers with outdated PHP code may find some errors regarding deprecated functions – these errors are turned on by default on PHP 5.3, however we will be making changes to remove the error reporting later tonight so they will disappear.
We recommend that all customers ensure that their scripts are up to date.
In relation to the previous post, the outage was caused by power loss that was experienced at BlueSquare datacentre. This affected uk2-pn stream server as well as one of out DNS servers so a small number of people may have experienced outages on the website due to lack of DNS (including websites of customers that use ns2.thisdns.net as one of their nameservers.
All is back to normal now.
Action has been taken to remove the script that was hogging CPU resources on the web hosting server (eu1.5net.co.uk). I’ll keep an eye on things to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.
A customer on the server seems to have been hosting a script that was severely overloading the CPU. The offending file has been removed.
This doesn’t seem to have affected user websites very much but we do take steps to remove any files that use up unfair resources.