We are undertaking a significant upgrade of our hosting infrastructure to increase capacity and performance. Specifically this involves installing more RAM, faster network cards, and faster storage with additional capacity. The work will be... read more

The Core server has now completed applying updates. The individual virtual machines on it are starting up and are now available or will be shortly. The server (and its various VMs) maybe slightly sluggish for teh next 30-60 mins as everything... read more

It appears that a regular restart of the server caused it to try and apply microsoft security updates. For some reason this failed and the server stalled. We have now managed to get the server to restart correctly and it is currently starting up... read more

This server went offline at 8:33am this morning (Sunday 11/11/2018).  This will effect all sites hosted on it.

We are actively investigating the cause and will provide more information as we can.

We have successfully completed the move of our primary SQL Server to the new, higher specification server, and all applications and websites are now available again. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this work. read more

On Wednesday 25th July at 8pm we will be shutting down our main SQL Server and moving it to a new, higher specification server, as part of our continuing effort to improve the performance and reliability of our hosted application and... read more

Meltdown/SPECTRE vulnerabilities We are endeavouring to deal with the vulnerabilities as quickly as possible, but in a controlled fashion with minimal impact to our clients. We have been applying and will continue to apply software and... read more

We are planning to carry out some maintenance work on ESDM-Core3 server on 22nd Feb 2018 from 6pm. The maintenance work will include adding some additional resources to the server and updating the BIOS to include the recent fixes for the... read more

The planned maintenance work on Web-12 has been completed successfully and the server and all websites is back up and running.

We are planning to carry out some planned maintenance work on Web-12 this evening (29th Aug. 2017) from 11pm. It is expected that the downtime will be limited to less than 1 hour. The websites/services affected are as follows: SHINE... read more