Network outage March 23 2013 (resolved)

Between 11:04 PM and 11:44 PM March 23, our network was either slow to respond due to high packet loss or completely unavailable to some customers.

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PHP 5.3 upgraded to 5.3.22; PHP 5.4.12 also available

The PHP developers have announced the release of version 5.3.22 that fixes several bugs. We’ve upgraded PHP 5.3.21 to version 5.3.22 on our servers as a result.

In addition, we now offer PHP version 5.4.12 as an optional choice in our control panel. For now, the PHP 5.4 series is recommended only for customers who need to test “cutting edge” features. Most customers should stick with the PHP 5.3 series, which is compatible with a wider variety of scripts.

Brief performance problem on web12 server March 4, 2013 (resolved)

There was a brief but severe performance problem on the web12 server today between 9:59 and 10:07 AM Pacific time. During this time, many Web server requests were very slow to load or even “timed out” completely. All services are now operating normally again. Other servers were not affected.

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