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On the right (and on the home page) you see a RSS newsfeed of critical Cozahost servers.  The status is updated in real time by sophisticated monitor and management software.

When a service goes down for more than a minute or two, operations staff are notified via email and SMS.  At the same time the management software will kick recovery agents (software) into action in an effort to resolve the issue automatically.

Where automated recovery fails or is not possible, a human operator will invesigate the problem and, if the outage is longer than a few minutes, will report back on this page with actions taken and a situation report.

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 Helm server Upgrade infoMinimize
Location: BlogsOperations Blog   
Posted by: hostFri, 08 Aug 2008 10:56:10 GMT

Helm will be upgraded/moved to a new physical server on 10 Aug 2008.  Work will start @ 08:00am (GTM +2) and should be completed by 13:00.  You will not be able to access the control panel during the maintenance window.

All domains on the BLUE/WHITE nameserver cluster will automatically be updated with the new DNS settings.  The changes will be implemented as follows:

  • All helm A records pointing to the server IP will be deleted
  • New helm A records will be created with the new server IP (74.53.60.232)
  • Redirect Script will be activated on the old server to forward visitors to the new server for a period of 60 days.

This means that the update should be invisible to you and your clients.

If you manage your own DNS please update your records with the new helm server IP as indicated above.

For any additional queries, please log a support ticket with our help desk.

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 Real time status

UP:POP3-BLUE
UP since 2008/11/14 15:50 - This is the primary server cluster for receiving email.

UP:SMTP-BLUE
UP since 2007/10/23 08:42 - This is the primary server cluster for sending email.

UP:EMAIL-WEB
UP since 2008/11/14 14:53 - Smartermail web access to email

UP:IIS SMTP-01
UP since 2008/11/02 12:06 - This mail server is used by scripts on the web server to send email.

UP:IIS SMTP-BLACK
UP since 2008/11/02 12:08 - This mail server cluster is used by scripts on the web server to send email.

UP:DNS-BLUE
UP since 2008/10/30 01:26 - This is the primary server cluster for translating internet host names into ip numbers.

UP:DNS-WHITE
UP since 2008/11/12 11:52 - Secondary DNS server cluster

UP:WWW-COZA01
UP since 2008/11/02 12:06 - Web server service

UP:WWW-BLACK
UP since 2008/11/02 12:06 - This is a web server cluster for presenting web content.

UP:FTP-COZA01
UP since 2008/11/02 12:06 - This FTP server cluster is used to upload web content.

UP:FTP-BLACK
UP since 2008/11/02 12:08 - This FTP server cluster is used to upload web content.
  
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