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Reboot of Purple Server

16 August 2018 at 12:37 UTC

LAMP Hosting


The Purple server will be rebooted Friday between 21:00 and 23:59 BST on Fri 17th Aug 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: 21:52 - This work is starting now

Update: 21:59 - This work has now been completed without incident.

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