The shared hosting server plsklin02.myhost.ie became unresponsive this evening on Fri Jun 7 19:36:55 IST 2024.
The server was found to be under an attack from malicious bots creating a high level of IO traffic. This impacted on the servers performance and its stability.
Measures were taken to mitigate the traffic and the server was back on line at Sat Jun 8 03:27:34 IST 2024.
Summary: Last week we were alerted regarding a recent exploit discovered in Intel, AMD and ARM chips that can allow a remote attacker access data held in CPU memory across a range of servers, desktops, mobile phones etc utilizing these CPU’s . Initially we had been waiting for Vendors to release software patches to mitigate the exploit, these are now available and we will be updating all affected hardware nodes tomorrow morning starting at 0:00 GMT
Maintenance Window: Tuesday 09th Jan 0:00-06:00 GMT
Services Affected: All services will be affected by this maintenance window in some manner. We hope to keep disruptions to a minimum and majority of services will not experience any downtime. Some services will however need a reboot which will take 5-10 minutes
Update: This maintenance was successful completed.
