Just a quick note to say that our servers will be upgraded on Tuesday 10th June 2008 (for Swift) and Wednesday 11th June 2008 (for Mentor). This is the first scheduled outage for both servers since we started offering web hosting to our clients, and our published statistics (http://www.kpdirection.com/serverstatus.php) - monitored by a third party company - show how reliable our business-class hosting is.

This upgrade is for a major version change of PHP, seeing us remove PHP4 from the servers and upgrade to the latest PHP5 version. We will also roll out other minor version upgrades of various system and service packages at the same time as this maintenance for PHP. Finally the server will be rebooted towards the end of the maintenance window to boot to a new kernel version and run any required disk check (FSCK).

All upgrades will commence at 10PM UK Time (3pm MT). We anticipate completing the maintenance prior to 7AM (UK Time) (Midnight MT) the following morning.

During the maintenance window the control panel will be unavailable, all other services remaining online and functional including your websites and email services. Towards the end of the maintenance window there will be approx 2 minutes of downtime as we reboot the server.

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