Network Issues
Scheduled Maintenance QST DC (Resolved)
Affecting Other - Dedicated servers in Queen Street Data Centre | Priority - Critical | Date - 23/03/2019 20:00 - 24/03/2019 03:00 | Last Updated - 25/03/2019 09:01
Description: We are relocating some of our dedicated servers from the Queen Street Data Centre to our Grafton Road Data Centre and as such some of our dedicated servers will go offline during the outage window.
Timeframe: 13/03/2019 21:00 - 14/03/2019 3:00 NZDT
Timeframe: 23/03/2019 20:00 - 24/03/2019 3:00 NZDTImpact: This only affects a few of our clients that have dedicated/bare metal servers in our Queen Street facility as we are migrating a few dedicated machines to the facility in Grafton Road.
Other: This will only affect a few of our clients with dedicated services in our Queen Street Data Centre.Update 1: Migration in progress, schedule has been extended to 3AM - apologies for any inconvenience.
Update 2: Phase1 has completed, we have relocated the dedicated servers to Grafton Data Centre. We will continue to phase2 on 23/03/2019 from 8 PM - 2 AM (This will not affect the client's servers we have already moved).
Update 3: We have finished relocating servers and Phase2 has completed.
Contact: If you have any issues or concerns about this schedule, or have any queries about the network downtime, please contact us as per our Contact Us page (https://vpscity.co.nz/contact)
Emergency Maintenance on a Node in Grafton DC (Resolved)
Affecting System - Cloudhost Node Grafton | Priority - High | Date - 01/03/2019 10:23 - 01/03/2019 10:37 | Last Updated - 01/03/2019 10:47
Description: We have encountered a problem on one of our cloud server node in our Grafton data centre. We urgently need to reboot it in order to fix the issue.
Time Frame: 01/03/2019 10:23 AM - 01/03/2019 10:37 AMImpact: Only clients on that particular node will experience outage while the node reboot.
Other: We apologise for the inconvenience caused.
Update: The impacted node has successfully rebooted and the services have been fully restored.
Contact: If you have any issues or concerns about this, or have any queries about the network downtime, please contact us as per our Contact Us page (https://vpscity.co.nz/contact-us)
Cloud Host Node Failure in Queen Street DC (Resolved)
Affecting Server - cp.vpscity.co.nz | Priority - Critical | Date - 28/02/2019 09:41 - 28/02/2019 09:54 | Last Updated - 28/02/2019 11:23
Description: We are currently experiencing an issue with one of our cloud host Node in Queen Street data centre.
Time Frame: 28/02/2019 09:41 - 28/02/2019 09:54
Impact: Some clients with cloud servers are experiencing issues connecting to their servers as one of our nodes has crashed. Our engineers are working on fixing the problem and restoring services.
Other: We apologise for the inconvenience caused.Update: All services have been restored now. Our engineers have fixed the issue and all services are now operational.
Contact: If you have any issues or concerns about this, or have any queries about the network downtime, please contact us as per our Contact Us page (https://vpscity.co.nz/contact-us)
DDoS Attack (Resolved)
Affecting System - All Services | Priority - Critical | Date - 20/01/2019 16:47 - 21/01/2019 09:05 | Last Updated - 20/01/2019 17:29
Description: DDoS Attack
Time Frame: 20/01/2019 16:47 - 20/01/2019 17:10 NZDT
Impact: We are currently experiencing a large DDoS attack affecting multiple services on our network. We are in the process of blocking the attack at our upstream providers. All services should return shortly.
Other: We appreciate your patience, and we apologise for the inconvenience caused.
Update: We have managed to block the DDoS attack with our upstream providers and all service have been restored.
Contact: If you have any issues or concerns about this, or have any queries about the network downtime, please contact us as per our Contact Us page (https://vpscity.co.nz/contact-us)
Shared Hosting Cluster Maintenance (Resolved)
Affecting System - Web Hosting Cluster | Priority - High | Date - 14/01/2019 21:00 - 21/01/2019 18:43 | Last Updated - 18/01/2019 13:59
Description: We will be migrating all shared hosting clients to new servers as the old servers are in need of operating system updates.
Time Frame: 14/01/2019 21:00 - ongoing
Impact: All web sites hosted on our shared web hosting servers will experience some minimal downtime during the scheduled timeframe. Downtime will be kept to a minimum whilst we migrate the sites across to the new server, however, we request that all clients check their sites after the migration to confirm full functionality. The purpose of this exercise is to update the server operating system which in turn will increase performance and security of the server.
Check: Clients are requested to check functionality of their sites after the upgrade to confirm all is working as expected. We don't envisage any problems however.
Update: We have successfully migrated our WH1 web server to the new operation system. The migration attempt on WH2 failed therefore we will be attempting again on Wednesday 16th during the same timeframe.
Update3: We are getting reports of intermittent freezing issues with transferring data on the new cluster. We are actively working on resolving these problems and ask that you bare with us at this time. We will post all updates here as we work through the teething issues and sort them out.
Update2: We have migrated WH2 web server to the new operation system. Some of our clients are experiencing issues with sending / receiving emails on the server. Our Engineers are actively working on it to rectify the issue
Contact: If you have any issues or concerns about this, or have any queries about the network downtime, please contact us as per our Contact Us page (https://vpscity.co.nz/contact-us)
DDoS Attack (Resolved)
Affecting Other - All Network Services | Priority - Critical | Date - 22/11/2018 00:10 - 22/11/2018 15:28 | Last Updated - 22/11/2018 17:00
Description: DDoS Attack
Time Frame: 22/11/2018 00:10 - 22/11/2018 15:28
Impact: We are currently experiencing a large DDoS attack affecting multiple services on our network. We are in the process of blocking the attack at our upstream providers. All services should return shortly.
Other: We appreciate your patience, and we apologise for the inconvenience caused.
Update: We have found the source of the DDoS attack and have managed to block them. All services have been restored.
Contact: If you have any issues or concerns about this, or have any queries about the network downtime, please contact us as per our Contact Us page (https://vpscity.co.nz/contact-us)
Emergency Maintenance at Grafton DC (Resolved)
Affecting System - Cloudhost Nodes Grafton | Priority - Critical | Date - 06/10/2018 00:00 - 08/10/2018 14:20 | Last Updated - 06/10/2018 02:20
Description: We have encountered a problem on our cloud server nodes in our Grafton data centre. We will need to reboot the nodes in order to fix the issue.
Time Frame: 06/10/2018 12:00 AM - 06/10/2018 01:00 AMImpact: Only clients with cloud servers on these nodes will experience downtime while the nodes reboot.
Other: We apologise for the inconvenience caused.
Update: The impacted nodes nodes in our Grafton data centre were successfully rebooted with in the maintenance windows and all services have been fully restored.
Contact: If you have any issues or concerns about this, or have any queries about the network downtime, please contact us as per our Contact Us page (https://vpscity.co.nz/contact-us)
Issue with sites on wh2.vpscity.co.nz (Resolved)
Affecting Server - wh2.vpscity.co.nz | Priority - Critical | Date - 17/09/2018 10:30 - 17/09/2018 22:43 | Last Updated - 17/09/2018 11:58
Description: We are experiencing an issue on our wh2 shared hosting server.
Time Frame: 17/09/2018 12:35 - Ongoing
Impact: All customers with shared hosting packages on wh2.vpscity.co.nz are experiencing a problem connecting to the websites.
Other: We apologise for inconvenience caused.
Update: Our engineers are actively working on it.
Update 2: We have had a hardware failure on wh2 server and have recovered all sites to a new server. Please let us know if you are missing any data or have any issues and our engineers will sort it out for you.
Update 3: All sites are up now and the server is operating normally. We will continue to monitor for the next 24hours.
Contact: If you have any issues or concerns about this, or have any queries about the network downtime, please contact us as per our Contact Us page (https://vpscity.co.nz/contact-us)
Voice Services (Resolved)
Affecting Other - Issues with Inbound calls from 2Degrees Network | Priority - Critical | Date - 14/09/2018 08:00 - 14/09/2018 10:10 | Last Updated - 17/09/2018 10:26
Description: One of our upstream carrier provider are currently experiencing problems with Inbound calls from 2Degrees network.
Time Frame: 14/09/2018 08:00 - 14/09/2018 10:10
Impact: Some of our customers may experience intermittent problems with inbound calls from 2Degrees Network. Outbound calls are not affected.
Other: We apologise for inconvenience caused.
Update: The problem is resolved with our upstream. We will continue to monitor throughout the day.
Contact: If you have any issues or concerns about this, or have any queries about the network downtime, please contact us as per our Contact Us page (https://vpscity.co.nz/contact-us)
Network Issue with Upstream Provider (Resolved)
Affecting Server - cp.vpscity.co.nz | Priority - Critical | Date - 29/08/2018 10:05 - 03/09/2018 12:33 | Last Updated - 29/08/2018 10:43
Description: One of our upstream providers are currently experiencing a network issue.
Time Frame: 29/08/2018 10:05 - CurrentImpact: One of our upstream providers have had a network failure and we are currently routing traffic via other links. Our engineers are actively working on this to regain full connectivity to affected clients. Please check back here for updates.
Other: We apologise for the inconvenience caused.Update: We are not affected by the network outage as our traffic is routing via other routes. We did however have a few minutes intermittent connectivity as routes rerouted.
Contact: If you have any issues or concerns about this, or have any queries about the network downtime, please contact us as per our Contact Us page (https://vpscity.co.nz/contact-us)