Hensel Hosting Status Weblog

FYI; SIDN has announced a maintanance window starting on March-16 for 24 hours.

“On 17 March 2010, SIDN is implementing a new version of its domain registration system (DRS). A 24-hour maintenance window is scheduled for migration to the new system, as follows:

Start: Tuesday 16 March 2010, 12.00 hours (CET)
End: Wednesday 17 March 2010, 12.00 hours (CET)

Registrations not possible
Please note that, during the maintenance window, your registrar will not be able to register .nl domain names or update existing registrations.

Registrations and updates will be possible again from noon on 17 March.

Brief interruptions to (Who)Is service
The Is and Whois services – the tools for checking the availability of domain names and looking up details of existing registrations – will remain available during the maintenance window. However, there may be some brief service interruptions. The DNS check service will remain available as usual.

Website updates
When the new registration system is introduced, many of SIDN’s procedures, forms and other documents will be changing as well. Numerous updates will therefore be made to the content of the website during the maintenance window, but the site will remain accessible.”

[https://www.sidn.nl/en/news/news/news/article/registration-of-nl-domain-names-not-possible-16-17-march-2010/]

Several shared hosting accounts are unavailable due to a software malfunction on mrwhite.hensel.nl. We are currently investigating and expect to solve the problem within 30 minutes.

Update: this issue has been resolved.

Due to a software failure, one of our shared hosting servers is currently overloaded. Because of this, several services are unresponsive. We expect to fix this problem in about 30 minutes.

Update: this issue has been resolved.

Since this weekend, additional countermeasures are active against a newly released attack tool that blocks requests to the Apache webserver. Attackers that try to use this tool are automatically blocked, and can no longer access the webserver. All managed servers received this update automatically.

Although false positives are unlikely, let us know if you encounter any issues.

Due to some kernel issues on our shared hosting platform, we will have to reboot several servers. This should not take more then a couple of minutes. During this maintenance your website and email will be inaccessible.

Update June 20 00:38: Maintenance has been completed. The total downtime was around 10 minutes.