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GCom Internet - Current and Recent News Items

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Have a Fantastic Festive Season!

Merry Christmas and a fantastic New Year to all our Graaf, GCom Internet and GCom Hosting clients. Thank you for your continued and magnificent support during 2011.

We'll be out of the office from Sunday 25th to (and including) Tuesday 27th December, 2011, and also from Sunday 1st January to (and including) Monday 2nd January, 2012. For all other days over the holiday period, we'll be on board in a relaxed kind of way.

Please keep yourselves and your families safe over the break. We look forward to seeing you in 2012.

Friday, December 09, 2011

Australian Network Expansion - 15th December - 4th Februrary

During the period from 15th December, 2011 through to 7th February, 2012, we will be bringing online a group of new servers within our network in the Over the Wire data center. These servers are all IBM Quad Core Xeon based systems, each with a minimum of 16GB RAM and 4TB of disk storage. They are being installed solely to handle the expansion of our web and email hosting operations.

The resources we've allocated to these new servers are quite massive by Australian standards, and during the installation we'll be upgrading all our Australian direct and reseller client hosting plan resource allocations. All existing Australian hosted clients will have their account resources upgraded with no fee increase.

In completing the upgrade, a huge amount of data will need to be transferred between live servers. The data is scheduled to be moved server by server in multiple stages. Each domain's SOA Minimum TTL will be reduced to 5 minutes immediately prior to the move, and increased again after the move has been verified to be successful.

Interruption for clients should be minimal to nil.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

System and Application Upgrades - 28th October - 4th November

This item affects only clients using GCom's Australian hosting services. This does not affect GCom's Australian ISP access clients.

GCom Internet will be performing combined system and application upgrades across all our Australian hosting servers over the period 28th October to 4th November.

This process will require several brief downtimes for various services on each server as the upgrades are performed. We will be performing the upgrades during the quietest time of day with respect to each server.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

PHP Upgrades - 6th August - 9th August

This item affects only clients using GCom's Australian hosting services. This does not affect GCom's Australian ISP access clients.

We will be performing a major upgrade of PHP5 from version 5.2.17 to 5.3.6 across a split range of our Australian hosting servers over the period 6th August to 9th August. PHP4 will not be modified.

Clients with sites on servers selected for the upgrade will contacted by email with additional information related to the process.

We again strongly recommend that all hosting clients make themselves familiar with the information provided in the following PHP and internal knowledge base articles...

http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.deprecated.php

http://www.gcom.net.au/kb/201081.html

Saturday, July 23, 2011

System and Application Upgrades - 30th July - 5th August

This item affects only clients using GCom's Australian hosting services. This does not affect GCom's Australian ISP access clients.

GCom Internet will be performing combined system and application upgrades across all our Australian hosting servers over the period 30th July to 5th August.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Network Upgrades - Sunday, 29th May

GCom Internet will be conducting network upgrades on Sunday, 29th May between 8:00 PM and 10:00 PM.

ISP and Hosting clients will see a total loss of connectivity and services for a few periods during this window. Total anticipated outage time is expected to be no longer than 50 minutes.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Network Expansion - 30th March - 10th April

During the period from 30th March through to 10th April, changes will be applied to our Australian routing to allow for new expanded capacity. The most critical items are...

Thursday 30th March - 2 brief outages of less than 5 minutes between 10:00 PM and 11:45 PM as new routes are loaded.

Sunday 3rd April - 1 outage of less than 30 minutes between 09:00 PM and 11:00 PM as new routers are physically installed.

Sunday 10th April - 09:00 PM - 11:00PM reserved for additional follow up action if required.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

PHP Upgrades - 23rd March - 28th March

This item affects only clients using GCom's Australian hosting services. This does not affect GCom's Australian ISP access clients.

We will be performing a minor upgrade of PHP5 from version 5.2.16 to 5.2.17 across all our Australian hosting servers over the period 23rd March to 28th March. PHP4 will not be modified.

We again strongly recommend that all hosting clients make themselves familiar with the information provided in the following PHP and internal knowledge base articles...

http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.deprecated.php

http://www.gcom.net.au/kb/201081.html

Friday, January 28, 2011

Kernel, System and Application Upgrades - 5th February - 8th February

This item affects only clients using GCom's Australian hosting services. This does not affect GCom's Australian ISP access clients.

GCom Internet will be performing combined kernel, system and application upgrades across all our Australian hosting servers over the period 5th February to 8th February.

Saturday, January 01, 2011

System and Application Software Upgrades - 8th January - 16th January

This item affects only clients using GCom's Australian hosting services. This does not affect GCom's Australian ISP access clients.

We will be performing some major system and application software upgrades across all our Australian hosting servers over the period 8th January to 16th January. The most significant upgrades will include...

WHM/cPanel 11.26 - 11.28
PHP5 upgrade 5.2.15 - 5.2.16
PHP4 rebuild 4.4.9

With respect to the PHP upgrade and to PHP in general, we strongly recommend that all hosting clients make themselves familiar with the information provided in the following PHP and internal knowledge base articles...

http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.deprecated.php

http://www.gcom.net.au/kb/201081.html

Thursday, November 25, 2010

PHP Upgrades - 3rd December - 8th December

This item affects only clients using GCom's Australian hosting services. This does not affect GCom's Australian ISP access clients.

We will be performing a minor upgrade of PHP5 from version 5.2.14 to 5.2.15 across all our Australian hosting servers over the period 3rd December to 8th December. PHP4 will not be modified.

We again strongly recommend that all hosting clients make themselves familiar with the information provided in the following PHP and internal knowledge base articles...

http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.deprecated.php

http://www.gcom.net.au/kb/201081.html

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Softaculous Premium Software Installer - October - December

This item affects only clients using GCom's Australian hosting services. This does not affect GCom's Australian ISP access clients.

Over the months of October through to December, we will be replacing all installations of Fantastico Deluxe on our hosting servers with Softaculous Premium.

GCom Internet has held licenses for Fantastico for many years and has installed the product on all our public hosting servers for client convenience. However, we now feel that the newer Softaculous Premium software installer is simply a better product with respect to volume of packages, product support, active development and security.

We will be licensing Softaculous Premium over all our servers and will be installing the package server by server over the next few months as existing Fantastico licenses expire.

Monday, July 12, 2010

PHP Upgrades - 20th July - 25th July

This item affects only clients using GCom's Australian hosting services. This does not affect GCom's Australian ISP access clients.

We will be performing a minor upgrade of PHP5 from version 5.2.13 to 5.2.14 across all our Australian hosting servers over the period 20th July to 25th July. PHP4 will not be modified.

We again strongly recommend that all hosting clients make themselves familiar with the information provided in the following PHP and internal knowledge base articles...

http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.deprecated.php

http://www.gcom.net.au/kb/201081.html

Monday, May 31, 2010

System and Application Software Upgrades - 4th June - 10th June

This item affects only clients using GCom's Australian hosting services. This does not affect GCom's Australian ISP access clients.

We will be performing some major system and application software upgrades across all our Australian hosting servers over the period 4th June to 10th June. The most significant upgrades will include...

PHP5 upgrade 5.2.10 - 5.2.13
PHP4 rebuild 4.4.9

http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.deprecated.php

http://www.gcom.net.au/kb/201081.html

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Server Power Upgrades

This item affects only GCom ISP clients. This does not affect any of GCom's DNS, email or hosting services.

On Thursday 11th March, between 12:00 am and 01:00 am we will be performing power upgrades to one of our server cabinets.

All national ISP connectivity will be intermittently unavailable for periods of up to 30 minutes within the outage window.

Happy Surfing,

Leo Julius

Graaf Computer Systems / GCom Internet