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.

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.