Author: Ashley Lipscombe

PHP 8

Here at Anu, we love to tinker with the latest and greatest. We are keen to provide our clients with access to new software when it is released as per their requirements.

PHP 8 was released November 26th, 2020. It is a major release with a long list of features, improvements and changes. You can read more here.

We have rolled out PHP 8 to all of our CentOS 8 Direct Admin shared hosting servers. You can deploy new accounts with PHP 8 and / or upgrade existing accounts.

We are able to provide virtual servers running PHP 8. We can upgrade existing CentOS 7 / 8 deployments or can provide new virtual servers with a variety of software stack options.

WordPress 5.6 was released to provide initial PHP 8 compatibility (there may be a few further tweaks required). Other major software vendors have also been releasing updates and patches to provide PHP 8 support. It may take a little while for plugin / module developers to catch up and also release updates.

If you would like to take advantage of PHP 8 and it’s associated performance and security gains, do not hesitate to drop us an email at support@anu.net.

[Complete] Hosted Email Maintenance

We will be performing scheduled maintenance on our Hosted Email platform.

You will be unable to access your emails and / or send emails for a period of time during the below window.

Incoming emails will be queued for delivery by our spam filtering server and / or the sending mail server and be delivered shortly after normal service resumes.

Estimated start time: 4th October, 2020 21:00 UK / 20:00 UTC
Estimated time of completion: 4th October, 2020 22:00 UK / 21:00 UTC

Update 4th October 2020 21:00 UK / 20:00 UTC
This work is now commencing

Update 4th October 2020 21:35 UK / 20:35 UTC
This work is now complete. Hosted Email has returned to normal service.

We are very sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Please contact support@anu.net if you have any queries relating to this maintenance.

[Resolved] Issues with ams1-c5-1 Direct Admin shared hosting server

There is an ongoing issue with the ams1-c5-1 Direct Admin shared hosting server. This started at approximately 2AM UK time (2020-06-06) and is ongoing as of 1:30PM UK time (2020-06-06).

This will affect websites, DNS service and email accounts hosted on this server.

The server has been online for long periods of time during this window but has had intermittent periods of prolonged downtime.

It appears to be a range of different denial of service attacks targeting web, DNS and other services.

We have been working throughout this period to try to mitigate the effects of these attacks.

We are very sorry for the inconvenience caused during this period and will continue to post updates.

UPDATE 2020-06-06 14:40 (UK TIME): We believe we have identified the root cause of these attacks – a compromised website hosted on the server. Things are stable now – we will check again a bit later and post one further update before closing this off. Once again, very sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Please contact support@anu.net if you have any queries.