New features in Customer Portal

Today we are pleased to announce a long anticipated update to our Customer Portal which introduces a number of new features:

  • Updated look and feel with new icons and “hamburger” menu.
  • Two-factor authentication (2FA) support to help keep your account secure. Compatible with any TOTP app such as Google Authenticator or Authy.
  • New rules for minimum password security which strive to strike the right balance between enforcing strong passwords and not getting in the way of choosing the password you want.
  • Ability to schedule out of office “vacation” messages in advance, and to automatically remove the message at a date and time of your choice.
  • Ability to configure Hosted Email mailboxes to forward copies of incoming mail to additional address(es).
  • Numerous minor bug fixes.

Comments, feedback or suggestions welcome at support@anu.net

[Closed] Packet loss in ams2 datacenter

Update 16:54 CET: The network has been stable again for the past 20 minutes so we’re closing this incident. We will continue to monitor the situation carefully and follow up with network operations to obtain a reason for outage.

Update 16:36 CET: Engineers have isolated the fault and are working on a solution. We’re currently still seeing minor packet loss but most services are now accessible again.

As of 16:15 CET we are experiencing packet loss via some routes to our Amsterdam 2 datacenter. Network operations is investigating but we do not yet have an ETA on a resolution.

Impacted services: VMs hosted in ams2, Hosted Email, ams2-c6-1 and ams2-c7-1 DirectAdmin servers.

We will update this blog when we know more.

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

[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.