Weycrest News and System Support Status
Latest news and updates can be found here. Check this page regularly or our blog at blogger.weycrest.co.uk
Tue Oct 3 11:18:04 BST 2006 - Weycrest becomes SW-Soft Gold Parter
As a SWsoft Gold Partner, Weycrest brings SWsoft's suite of hosting automation and server virtualisation products to our Web Hosting and VPS customers, delivering proven performance, reliability, manageability and value through Virtuozzo-based Virtual Private Servers and the Plesk Control Panel.
Thu Sep 21 19:57:23 BST 2006 - Serious Outage - Redbus Network
We have just experienced a serious network outage (approx 90 minutes downtime) on our Redbus Sovereign House Network, caused by problems with the Cisco BGP router. Network staff are still investigating but it is thought it might due to some kind of DoS attack. This would only have caused problems for customers on or mercury server (also our signup server secure1 would have been unavailable).
We have decided to publish our network uptimes. A temporary status link can be found at www.paullee.eu. Additional servers are being added daily to the Alertra monitoring.
Wed Aug 9 13:28:20 BST 2006 - Weycrest expands into Coreix
Following recent space and power restrictions imposed by Redbus Interhouse, Weycrest has started colocating within Coreix. Unlike Redbus which is "only down the road" from us on the Isle of Dogs, Coreix is based in the Stratford in E15, within the VSNL facility which is still very local.
Coreix boasts good support - genuine 24/7 response and excellent infrastucture. Their Network operates in a 14,000 sq.ft raised floored state-of-the-art data centre which offers complete redundancy in protected power, HVAC, fire suppression, network connectivity and on-site manned security.
Coreix's core network architecture utilises high quality equipment from Juniper, Foundry and Cisco, which is setup in a fully redundant mesh it allows us to offer high availability and exceptional throughput to our end users.
Whilst Weycrest will be taking Coreix/Dedimax transit in the short term (we are impressed with the speed and resilience of their network) we are not ruling out setting up our own fibre interconnects from Telehouse North.
Last week we housed a test server on a new HP Proliant Server. Its likely Coreix will house our Virtuozzo VPS hosting stack, and give us the ability to expand our dedicated server and colocations offerings.
Wed Aug 9 13:33:20 BST 2006 - Weycrest adds Joomla! to Application Vault
By popular demand Weycrest have added the popular Content Management System Joomla to their "one click" Application Vault. Joomla, is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems around. It's been deployed all the world and used for everything from very simple websites to complex corporate applications.
Joomla, is now even easier to install, simple to manage, and reliable, and requires very little web development skills to produce a professional looking website.
Wed Aug 9 13:38:52 BST 2006 - New Cpanel/WHM Reseller Hosting Plans
Weycrest will shortly be re-organising its existing reseller plans and introducing Cpanel Hosting.
Weycrest Multi Domain Hosting will give you the freedom, power and flexibility to host Multiple Websites within pre-defined Disk Space and Data Transfer limits. True Multiple Domain Name Hosting will have finally arrived in the UK. Why pay for single domain hosting, when you can host multiple websites in a Weycrest Multi Domain account?
It is hoped that the reseller plans will especially appeal to domain resellers as each account will have to two static IP addresses and personal nameservers for domain registration purposes.
Designed for hosting resellers, affiliate marketeers or just those who want the added convenience of being able to administer several domains from one easy to use hosting account.
More information can be found on the Weycrest Blog. There will be special deals for the first 100 customers.
Sat Aug 12 00:26:34 BST 2006 - Weycrest Launches a New Support Wiki
Weycrest today launched a new Support Wiki. This is the place to gain and share your knowledge. Weycrest Wiki is a support documentation portal, knowledge base, and collaboration tool. We'd like it to develop into something more (what this 'more' is we don't know [yet]!
Note that everyone (that includes you!) can create or edit content . you just need to login first (registration is easy and instant).
Some people are not always happy with the hosting support or the documentation they receive. This is your opportunity to put this right ;o).
The Support Wiki can be accessed at http://wiki.weycrest.co.uk.
