http://www.darkfrenchhost.com News from Dark French Host - Server Info en Copyright (c) 2004-2011Dark French Host web@www.darkfrenchhost.com PawPrint XDe News Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:25:10 -0700 120 http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=41 http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=41 After an all night session ending at 6:30am Saskatchewan time the new DFH server is up and running. http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=40 http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=40 DFH server #4 becomes unresponsive and requires a complete rebuild of new server. http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=39 http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=39 In the early afternoon our mail relay decided to stop forwarding mail. The issue was rectified at approx 4:00pm Saskatchewan time. http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=38 http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=38 From the early morning April 21st until late at night April 23rd the Amazon Cloud suffered a massive outage at their Virginia data center. This is the location where our shared hosting server is located and as such this outage disrupted service for most all of our customers. This server is now back in operation and functioning normally. http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=36 http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=36 It has been proven to be another trouble with the same data circuit that is causing the outgoing mail top be blocked. We are working with our ISP to get this resolved ASAP. http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=35 http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=35 A brief explanation of the problem to our data service provider resulted in a fairly quick fix. http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=34 http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=34 We are currently working with our data service provider to rectify this service outage. The mail server itself is up and running but due to a connectivity issue (most likely a programming error) no mail is being sent out. http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=33 http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=33 Server maintenance on DFH#4 has been completed with the upgrading of MySQL to 5.1 and PHP to 5.3.3 (latest stable versions). The upgrade did take longer than anticipated but in the end provided a measurable performance improvement on the server. http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=30 http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=30 June 14th was the day for some routine mail server maintenance that ended up causing mail interruption and the spam filtering software to lock up. The maintenance cleared over 600,000 backed up spam mails from the server. http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=28 http://www.darkfrenchhost.com/news/?action=view&nid=28 During the routine maintenance a session file for Plesk has become "locked" and at the moment is unchangeable. As such Plesk cannot be started on the server.