From 2018/10/01 we will not offer PHP 5.4/5.5 on any of our shared hosting plans. After this date you will not be able to switch to any aforementioned versions of PHP, if you have currently switched to one of those your selection will be automatically changed to PHP 5.6 . Please note that PHP 5.6 will also be removed from our systems by Q2 2020 ... Read More »
Untill now we have traditionally been storing your emails in your hosting account, on the same exact mount point of it be exact. This has been working fine for us since we can allow you to easily and securely access your mail directly (without the use of an email client or webmail) in an encrypted form.This in the last 18 months have become very ... Read More »
We would like to inform you we are going to be doing storage maintenance on 2018/08/08 23:00 (UTC+2). There will be no downtime or service degradation during the process and we expect it to last for 4 hours.
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eSG NOC
After an internal meeting last week we decided we are going to backport select features of Halcyon 6.4 to our current mainline. The fact is that there are a few reasons that may delay a 6.4 release:First and most important is the numerous edge cases with older CMS's that we still need to take care.Secondly we will be offline (Summer vacation) ... Read More »
We are in the process for finalizing the next update to Halcyon. All of our hosting servers are on 6.1 with a few exceptions so this release will be bringing everything included in 6.2 too. The current changelog is: 6.2: CODENAME: PANAGARIS / 2018-06-03 Structured Data Parsing Automatic Brotli compression Use new API for Soteria New self ... Read More »
We would like to inform you that we have switched to PHP 7.0 as the minimum version on all shared hosting accounts. You can still use PHP 5.6 if you had it previously manually set and you can still manualy force it per account. By August 2018 we will be moving to PHP 7.1 as minimum and we expect to switch to 7.2 by February of 2019.We have done ... Read More »
After our last upgrade to our storage devices with multiple NVMe disks we run into the issue that the disk bandwidth supported overcome the capacity of our storage network connections. The new storage does 4714.3 MB/s (Read) and 4363.1 MB/s (Write) per Storage Volume. These volumes are then multiplexed per availability zone and can reach up to ... Read More »
We have received our new NVMe disks and we will be performing upgrades on our RT(Caching & Proxy Storage) storage servers on 2018/03/07 16:00. In total we will be adding 120TB of NVMe storage (60TB usable) and ther will be no downtime to any services. About 15% of this storage will be used to provide more Caching & Proxy Storage to current ... Read More »
We would like to inform you we are now fully supporting CAA records in our DNS servers. You can find more information on what CAA is here Wikipedia.For security purposes we will be creating the records for all SSL certificates we have added or will add to your services as long as the CSR is created in one of our systems. During this process we ... Read More »
Our members area has had performance issues for quite some time. The issue is that we have been adding functionality for years now and thus we have managed to keep our users logged in performing work from one single location 24/7. This slowlly degraded performance in our members area since the servers had to communicate and await for replies from ... Read More »
