The webserver software apache and PHP on cpanel03.avantihosting.com.au is currently out of action. We have engineers from cPanel working on the issue as a matter of urgency.
Emails remain unaffected at this time.
Further updates will be posted as comments to this post.
Most PHP scripts and websites will continue to work as usual, we are however aware that PHP 5.3 introduced some changes that are not backward compatible and may potentially break some PHP scripts.
For more details about the changes that have been introduced with PHP 5.3 go to: http://aviho.st/MigrationToPHP53
Avanti Hosting will be upgrading PHP to version 5.3 on cpanel04.avantihosting.com.au this coming Thursday, 29 March 2012, evening.
For any questions about this upgrade, contact Avanti Hosting support.
Any furher updates will be posted as comments to this post.
Please be advised that due to an issue at the data cnter where our servers are, we have shutdown servers as a precaution.
Water has been identified in the rider cupboard that houses the local power distribution boards for these facilities. The water is believed to be coming from a higher floor and is working its way down the building.
Due to the high risk of an electrical fault, the power has been turned off. At this stage we have no guarantees that the generators will be able to supply power and therefore we have gracefully shutdown our servers.
We are also concerned that temperatures in the facility may rise as the Air Conditioner units are also fed from the same riser cupboard.
Building management are on site working to rectify the issue and PIPE's electrical contractor is in constant contact with the NOC regarding the situation.
We will provide updates as comments to this post as more information becomes available.
We have suffered a disk failure which is impacting our Email Plus service which is currently unavailable.
We are currently working hard at restoring the Email Plus service as a priority and will post further developments as comments to this post.
Apache and PHP have been unrelieable on cpanel03.avantihosting.com.au over the last few weeks.
cPanel support have identified the issue as a potential problem with the use of PHP version 5.2. Additionally official support for PHP 5.2 is no longer provided by PHP and as such it is time to upgrade to PHP 5.3.
Most PHP scripts and websites will continue to work as usual, we are however aware that PHP 5.3 introduced some changes that are not backward compatible and may potentially break some PHP scripts.
For more details about the changes that have been introduced with PHP 5.3 go to: http://aviho.st/MigrationToPHP53
Avanti Hosting will be upgrading PHP to version 5.3 on cpanel03.avantihosting.com.au this coming Tuesday, 6 March 2012, evening.
For any questions about this upgrade, contact Avanti Hosting support.
Any furher updates will be posted as comments to this post.
Avanti Hosting will install a maintencance update to Zimbra which powers our Email Plus service.
Due to this update, the Email Plus service will be unavailable for up to 2 hours from Thursday, 8 December 2011, evening, 8:30pm
This maintenance update includes a number of bug fixes and improvements. For a complete list of the bugs fixes to be applied and the improvements, have a look at the following links:
Updates including when we have started working on this update will be posted as comments to this advisory.
We are currently enquiring with EdgeCast on an ETA for services to resume.
Further updates will be posted as comments to this outage advisory.
PIPE have an unscheduled poweroutage which has affected all our services.
This power outage started at 8:26am on Saturday 15 October 2011.
We are in contact with our upstream provider and PIPE to have power restored as soon as possible.
Further updates will be added as comments to this outage advisory.
The servers are currently rebooting and should be available soon again.
Further updates will be provided as comments to this outage notice.
The attack seems to be under control now and the network stable again.
We are sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused.
