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Reboot of Purple Server

03 July 2018 at 14:58 UTC

LAMP Hosting


The Purple server will be rebooted Wednesday between 21:00 and 23:59 BST on Wed 04th Jul 2018 to patch a new variation of the spectre vulnerability.

This vulnerability meant that a local attacker could read private data out of memory.

The outage should only last around 5 minutes while the systems reboots.

Update: 22:03 - This work is starting now

Update: 22:08 - This work has now been completed without incident.

Last updated: 18 June 2024 at 21:12 +0100