2017 Changes: Halcyon, Coeus, Go, NodeJS, MSSQL, PHP Composer

In this post I will be updating you on some of the most important planned changes for the rest of the year and including 2017. Be warned that this post is mostly directed to developers and IT departments hosting or are planning to host with us.HalcyonHalcyon is bringing a boost of approx 15% compared to v5.2 and should be the last release for the ... Read More »

21st Dec 2016
Members Area Maintenance

We would like to inform you that we will be performing maintenance in our members area on 2016/12/21 @ 08:00 (GMT+2), the maintenance is expected to last 1 hour. The service will be fully functional during the update, we expect minor delays in calls but nothing major.

Best Regards,
eSG NOC

21st Dec 2016
Maintenance on development services

We would like to inform you that today we will be performing maintenance in our internal development services. During this time no new builds of our software will be pushed and all of our repos will not be available. Our packages in the distribution service will work fine and they will be accessible as always using the bootstrapper (esgtools). We ... Read More »

14th Dec 2016
Livechat offline due to upgrade.

We would like to inform you that our live chat will be offline for the next 5 days due to upgrade of the software. Our new live chat will be up and running on 2016/12/10. This upgrade is part of our integration project, the chat service was one of the last services that was not been integrated to our members area.

eSG NOC

5th Dec 2016
Service Status Maintenance

We will be performing maintenance to the Service Status page on 2016/12/04 04:10, during this time the frontend of the status will not be accessible. The monitoring infrastructure and notifications will work fine.  
 
The maintenance will last about 20 minutes.
 
Best Regards,
eSG NOC

4th Dec 2016
Maintenance: Members Area

We would like to inform you that we will be having maintenance work done in our Members area between 00:30 and 02:30 (2016/10/24), during that time there may be interminent issues in accessing the members area, there will be no downtime to customers services or SSO.The maintenance will be about issues specific clients have in accessing parts of ... Read More »

24th Oct 2016
Technical Issue: Minor clock drift

During our recent emergency maintenance we noticed that the server had a constant clock drift of 50ms, checking on the servers logs we noticed that this was due to a configuration error from our monitoring service.We have fixed the issue in the configuration of the service and it has been pushed to all of our servers. The issue was affecting only ... Read More »

12th Oct 2016
Emergency Maintenance on Server(s): Denethor

Due to an issue with an overheating HDD in the server that was producing multiple errors per second we had to perform emergency maintenance on the server. Unfortunately since we had to check all the hard disks for issues the server had to be brought to an offline state for approximately 2 minutes. The server is again up and functions properly. ... Read More »

12th Oct 2016
Update to latest golang

Today we are pushing the latest version of go on all of our servers, build scripts have been already updated. We are rushing this update due to issues with OS X 10.12 with binaries build with older versions of the golang. All software build by eSG has already been rebuild using Go 1.7.1 and have already been updated in all our servers. At this ... Read More »

22nd Sep 2016
Halcyon Engine v5.2 Released

We are proud to announce the new release of our engine. This version is a bug fix and maintenance release, no new features were introduced.Whats new? Fixed: Data monitoring issue. The API was not returning the bandwidth counters properly. Fixed: DNS Prefetching. DNS prefetching was not enabled automatically for most hosts, this fix reduces ... Read More »

26th Jul 2016