October 30th 2009 05:50:25 The following advisory has been received from eApps regarding our servers. This will affect the availability of the servers for a short period of around 20 minutes sometime between 03:00 and 07:00 tomorrow morning, 31st October.
IMPORTANT: Emergency eApps Maintenance Friday, Oct 30, 11 PM Eastern (GMT-4)
Dear Valued Customer,
At 11PM Eastern (GMT-4) on Friday, October 30, 2009 we have scheduled an emergency maintenance event. We have discovered a potential security exploit that has a severity level that warrants emergency maintenance. The maintenance involves the installation of a security update that requires a reboot of the server your eApps Hosting service runs on. This is a 3 hour maintenance window starting at 11PM Eastern (GMT-4). Your service will be offline for a period of 10-20 minutes sometime during the maintenance window while the server your service is running on is rebooted.
Please accept our apologies. Due to the severity of the situation it is important that we perform proactive maintenance.
Sincerely,
eApps Hosting
RISK: High – Your service will be offline for up to 20 minutes during the reboot of the server your hosting service is running on.
July 8th 2009 10:08:28 Server restarted successfully. Apologies for any inconvenience. It looks like this may have been a denial of service attack.
July 8th 2009 10:04:04 Now attempting a server restart ...
July 8th 2009 9:52:45 We also seem to have a php eaccelerator caching problem, not sure if this is related but it is stopping the server from restarting. We are now clearing the cache and will attempt a restart shortly.
July 8th 2009 9:49:55 The recent server error seems to have been due to a high number of incoming emails. Further investigation is underway ...