Dear Customer, As a result of monitoring the changes we made on 15th February’s emergency maintenance window, we need to make some alterations to the configuration to further harden the network. In order to do this, our network will be at risk from 22:00 to 01:00 to update several core routers. It is not anticipated [...]
Dear Customer In order to further harden our network against a new type of Denial-of-Service attack we’ve seen recently (Saturday 12th Feb), we will be applying some emergency configuration changes late tonight, between 23:30 and 00:00, to a number of our core routers. It is not anticipated that this work will be service-affecting, however, as [...]
We are happy to announce that Debian Squeeze images are now available on OpenVZ. Click here for pricing and to order.
Switchlink constantly strives to take our services forward in quality, support and service offerings. As such, IPv6 is now available on all our products, and as of 20/1/2011, they are available on all our Virtual Server platforms. Making us a leader in the market. There is no monthly charge for IPv6 addresses, but there will [...]
There is fault on LINX at the moment which will be affecting routes to and from a number of places for many ISPs Please see the graph at https://www.linx.net/pubtools/trafficstats.html LINX lost around 200,000Mbps of traffic about 4pm. They’re working to fix ASAP Please bear with us whilst this peering point addresses it’s issues. Alternate routes [...]
We have just added Ubuntu 10.04 onto our OpenVZ Virtualization platform and is now available to order.
All beta users were notified on the 13th of September that their service require signup prior to the 17th to ensure theor service remains in tact. Further notification was sent out on the 17th of September notifying any users that have not extended their service that their service will be terminated. This morning, any servers [...]
Following up on the email sent to our customers, there is a maintenance window @ 00:00 to 02:00 on the 16th of September 2010. This will effect all Switchlink customer and is Phase one of the upgrades. If you’re VPS is offline after 02:00, please contact support.
We have noticed that their has been some issues with our ticket system over the last 4 hours. Some emails were not getting through to our ticket system, for this we apologise. This was only effected replies to existing tickets, and not new cases. If you have submitted a response after 3:30PM and received no [...]
Due to a long number of service issues with Parallels, we have decided to move away from the Parallels products for out Virtual Server Products and move to SolusVM. This allows us to offer both OpenVZ (Virtuozzo) and Xen HVM products side by side. Please note, that during this period, access to the Power Panel [...]