Due to a security vulnerability in Xen, Rackspace are updating all of their servers (not just Wikimedia UK’s) which has necessitated a restart of all their servers.
This is currently affecting us; all of our websites and services.
Service will be resumed as quickly as possible, and I am monitoring (as I can) for issues related to the restarts.
It’s not a brilliant situation, but the host has had no choice because of this major vulnerability (affecting many hosting providers).
Sorry to be brief; handling a whole host of restarts with all my clients tonight ;) Any questions, please ask. Cheers,
Tom
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I've just been told that this was completed overnight. On 29 Sep 2014 22:46, "Thomas Morton" morton.thomas@googlemail.com wrote:
Due to a security vulnerability in Xen, Rackspace are updating all of their servers (not just Wikimedia UK’s) which has necessitated a restart of all their servers.
This is currently affecting us; all of our websites and services.
Service will be resumed as quickly as possible, and I am monitoring (as I can) for issues related to the restarts.
It’s not a brilliant situation, but the host has had no choice because of this major vulnerability (affecting many hosting providers).
Sorry to be brief; handling a whole host of restarts with all my clients tonight ;) Any questions, please ask.
Cheers,
Tom
*Sent with Airmail*
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