Announcements

Maidenhead UK Network Issue

  • 26th May 2016
Our Data Centre experienced what we believe to be a data centre wide networking issue overnight for a brief period.  We are waiting for the outage report.  As it stands this is the only response we have had from the data centre.  The moment we have the reason for outage we will update this post.  IOMART Maidenhed is a stable and secure ...
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XEN24 RAID Card Replacement

  • 21st May 2016
XEN24 RAID card is not responding to commands but the server is working fine.  At 12.01am on Sunday 22 May 2016 the server will be powered down and the RAID card and all drive cables will be replaced with new ones.We anticipate this being routine maintenance and we thank you for your patience while we fix this faulty hardware.As a precaution ...
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Xen30 down for maintenance

  • 5th May 2016
The XEN30 node started showing some issues with dom0 showing stress from arcconf requests stalling on the RAID card.  12.40am:  The server was rebooted but is not coming back on line. It's not booting yet.  We may need to replace the RAID card.1.10am:The data centre remote hands have been asked to hook up a recovery session so we can see why ...
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.com Domain Name Charges

  • 3rd May 2016
This is a notice to inform you that our .com domain names are increasing by 40 pence due to our supplier costs increasing and increased admin costs associated with new ICANN verification rules.  We have kept this cost increase to the absolute minimum.  The average cost of a .com domain from 8 of the best known UK suppliers is £10.77 + VAT for ...
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