GCom Internet - Current and Past News Items

Monday, May 31, 2010

Kernel and PHP Upgrades - 4th June - 10th June

This item affects only clients using GCom's Australian hosting services. This does not affect GCom's Australian ISP access clients.

GCom Internet will be performing some major system and application upgrades across all our Australian hosting servers over the period 4th June to 10th June. The most significant upgrades will include...

• Linux Kernel upgrades
• PHP5 upgrade 5.2.10 - 5.2.13
• PHP4 rebuild 4.4.9

With respect to the PHP upgrade and to PHP in general, we strongly recommend that all hosting clients make themselves familiar with the information provided in the following PHP and internal knowledge base articles...

http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.deprecated.php

http://www.gcom.net.au/kb/201081.html

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Server Power Upgrades

This item affects only GCom ISP clients. This does not affect any of GCom's DNS, email or hosting services.

On Thursday 11th March, between 12:00 am and 01:00 am we will be performing power upgrades to one of our server cabinets.

All national ISP connectivity will be intermittently unavailable for periods of up to 30 minutes within the outage window.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Have a Fantastic Festive Season!

Merry Christmas and a fantastic New Year to all our Graaf, GCom Internet and GCom Hosting clients. Thank you for your continued and magnificent support during 2009.

We'll be out of the office from Friday 25th to (and including) Monday 28th December, 2009, and also on Friday 1st January, 2010. For all other days over the holiday period, we'll be on board in a relaxed kind of way.

Please keep yourselves and your families safe over the break. We look forward to seeing you in 2010.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

GCom Closed - 28th September - 7th October

GCom Internet's office will be closed for a short period from Monday, 28th September, through to Wednesday, 7th October, with both dates being inclusive.

During that period, our office will be attended irregularly for security purposes only.

Accordingly, the payment date for any unpaid MaxiPlan accounts has been extended until Friday, 9th October. All unpaid MaxiPlan accounts have been flagged to remain active until that date.

If you need support during this time, please just email us at and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

In cases of genuine emergency only, or if you find you've run out of HourSaver net time while we're away, a staff member will remain contactable on Melbourne telephone number (03) 9016 0001

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Kernel, System and Application Upgrades - 28th August - 3rd September

This item affects only clients using GCom's Australian hosting services. This does not affect GCom's Australian ISP access clients.

GCom Internet will be performing combined kernel, system and application upgrades across all our Australian hosting servers over the period 28th August to 3rd September.

This process will require several brief downtimes for various services on each server as the upgrades are performed. We will be performing the upgrades during the quietest time of day with respect to each server.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Colour Laser Printing - GCom Hard Drive Cafe

A new colour laser printer has just been added to the GCom Hard Drive Cafe.

The installed unit is a Samsung CLP-610ND/XAS which was chosen for its energy and consumables efficiency, and for its speed of printing in both colour and monochrome.

All details related to the GCom Hard Drive Cafe can be found here.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Kernel Upgrades - 20th December - 22nd December

This item affects only clients using GCom's Australian hosting services. This does not affect GCom's Australian ISP access clients.

GCom Internet will be performing an upgrade of Linux kernels across all our Australian hosting servers over the period 20th December to 22nd December.

This process will require a downtime of approximately 4 minutes on each server as the upgrade is performed. We will be performing the kernel upgrades during the quietest time of day with respect to each server.

Monday, June 02, 2008

Sydney Network Expansion - 4th June - 29th June

During the period from Wednesday 4th June through to Sunday 29th June, we will be bringing online a new server cluster within our Sydney network in the Global Switch data center. These servers are all Dell Quad Core Xeon based systems, and are being installed solely to handle the expansion of our web and email hosting operations.

The bandwidth we've allocated to these new servers is quite massive by Australian standards, and during the installation we'll be upgrading all our Australian clients currently hosted on our USA servers to this premium high speed Australian bandwidth. All accounts will retain their existing USA disk space and bandwidth allowances with no fee increase. Existing Australian hosted clients will have their account resources upgraded to match, again with no fee increase.

In completing the upgrade, a huge amount of data will need to be transmitted between USA and Sydney as websites, databases and email stores are transferred and loaded onto the new servers. The data is scheduled to be moved server by server in multiple stages. Each domain's SOA Minimum TTL will be reduced to 5 minutes immediately prior to the move, and increased again after the move has been verified to be successful. Interruption for your clients should be minimal to nil.

Monday, January 07, 2008

MySQL Upgrades - 9th January - 12th January

This item affects only clients using GCom's Australian and USA hosting services. This does not affect GCom's Australian ISP access clients.

GCom Internet will be performing an upgrade of MySQL from version 4.1.22 to 5.0.45 across all our Australian and USA hosting servers over the period 9th January to 12th January.

This process will require a downtime for all PHP and MySQL services of approximately 20 minutes on each server as the upgrade is performed. We will be performing the MySQL upgrades during the quietest time of day with respect to each server.

Monday, July 31, 2006

Microsoft FrontPage - End of Life

Microsoft have now officially terminated their FrontPage web development product. GCom Internet will continue to provide legacy support for FrontPage Extensions on our public hosting servers for only so long as such provision does not conflict with any other server applications. At this stage, we are setting December, 2006 as the advised target date for end users to work around any reliance on the discontinued product.

While we will no longer advertise Microsoft FrontPage as a feature of our hosting plans, we will allow the product to run on our servers until we encounter any security or compatibility issues.

Monday, January 10, 2005

Anti-Spam System Upgrade

We have recently upgraded our Australian mail servers to incorporate the latest Spam Assassin release. It's a self training and learing anti-spam system and we're finding it extremely efficient.

For full details on the operation of the system for your email accounts, please take a look in the GCom Knowledge Base  here.

If you're interested in the Spam Assassin project itself, you can find all the interesting details here.

Sunday, July 04, 2004

Important - New Australia Wide Settings

If you have not yet done so, it is now fairly urgent that you check your GCom mailbox and follow the instructions contained in two emails sent to you regarding our new Australia wide dialup number and a simple modification required to your email settings.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Happy Surfing,

Leo Julius

Graaf Computer Systems / GCom Internet