In preparation for Business Hosting hardware updates - we are going to move businesshost4 websites to a slightly faster server. Over the next 24 hours, your site may go off-line for a minute or two* whilst a full off-line backup is taken. This downtime will only occur once when this takes place. For any questions or issues, please contact support.
*Some large containers (High disk space ones) may have the one-time off-line backup lasting 5-10 minutes.
6th October 2016, at 3:25PM
7th October 2016, at 9:49AM
This server is presently down. This will affected all hosted services on this domain which will be primarily www. Email should be unaffacted as email is hosted via the Atmail or Mercury clusters.
Our on call engineering team are now reviewing this issue.
23rd September 2016, at 11:35PM
24th September 2016, at 1:33AM
Due to staff sickness, please be advised that our support team will operating under restricted hours this weekend, Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th September. Our team will be available to assist you from 1pm to 5pm BST on both days - normal operating hours will resume at 8am on Monday morning.
16th September 2016, at 5:05PM
16th September 2016, at 4:05PM
We are currently investigating in to some issues affecting the networking on one of our business hosting servers. Our engineers have been raised and are working on the issue at hand. We will post more information once we receive feedback from our engineers.
8th September 2016, at 8:35PM
8th September 2016, at 8:10PM
We're going to improve the hardware on businesshost3 server. In preparation for this, we're going to be doing some maintenance on the server and taking some further backups to our regular overnight ones. Over the next 24 hours, your site may go off-line for a minute or two* whilst a full off-line backup is taken. This downtime will only occur once when this takes place. For any questions or issues, please contact support.
*Some large containers (High disk space ones) may have the one-time off-line backup lasting 5-10 minutes.
8th September 2016, at 4:46PM
9th September 2016, at 4:22PM
We're currently looking at an issue affecting the WP hosting platform. Several sites do appear to be offline and we're currently assessing this.
8th September 2016, at 5:28AM
8th September 2016, at 6:51AM
This server is undergoing a quick reboot to apply some security updates.
8th September 2016, at 12:13AM
7th September 2016, at 11:24PM
We're going to improve the hardware on businesshost2 server. In preparation for this, we're going to be doing some maintenance on the server and taking some further backups to our regular overnight ones. Over the next 24 hours, your site may go off-line for a minute or two* whilst a full off-line backup is taken. This downtime will only occur once when this takes place. For any questions or issues, please contact support.
*Some large containers (High disk space ones) may have the one-time off-line backup lasting 5-10 minutes.
16th August 2016, at 3:35PM
18th August 2016, at 9:59AM
Businesshost4 seems non-responsive this morning. We're going to apply some new security patches and reboot the server. All sites should be back up in the next 10-15 minutes.
11th August 2016, at 9:16AM
11th August 2016, at 8:59AM
WordPress VPS2 is currently experiencing a large amount of HTTP traffic, which has resulted in flooding the network. Access to the host has been temporarily suspended at the router level. Engineers are investigating.
9th August 2016, at 9:05AM
9th August 2016, at 8:19AM