Simba Hosting are committed to providing current technologies, not allowing our platform to slowly rot over the years, as is too common in the industry. As part of this commitment, the database server (MariaDB) has been upgraded on our main… READ MORE
28 Jun.2019
At Simba Hosting we are committed to using up-to-date technologies. Far too many hosting companies simply let their platforms “rot”, and allow their customers to experience the increasing problems that result. As part of this, our shared web hosting database… READ MORE
02 Nov.2018
The shared webserver migration described in our previous post has been completed. If you need to change DNS records, as described in that post, then you should do so now. We are now completing a number of post-migration tasks and… READ MORE
30 Oct.2018
As previously advised by email, soon, the IP address of our main shared web hosting platform will change, as part of a comprehensive upgrade which we have been working on for several weeks. This post now contains the information on… READ MORE
26 Oct.2018
Our transition to a new database server for our shared web hosting customers is now complete. The transition was seamless; i.e. no data was lost. Most sites experienced around 25 minutes of down-time during the transition; some experienced much less…. READ MORE
30 Oct.2015
As many of you will have noticed, there were several hours of unplanned downtime for UK mail and shared hosting services from late afternoon until late evening yesterday, Thursday 29th October. This was caused by a defective hard disk drive…. READ MORE
22 Sep.2015
Some customers will have noticed unplanned down-time on their websites during the last hour, during which the affected websites could not contact their databases. This was caused by a mistaken and unannounced change in network routing at our data-centre company…. READ MORE
19 Jun.2015
We are in process of implementing an upgrade from PHP 5.4 to PHP 5.5 as PHP 5.4’s final end of life approaches in a couple of months time. This should be a pain-free migration, as PHP 5.5 has only some… READ MORE
18 Sep.2014
UK shared hosting customers are going to be subject to some downtime for their websites and email at 9pm tonight (UK time). A fault has been detected on a hard disk, which will need to be physically replaced. Non-SSL websites… READ MORE
06 Jan.2014
Some time in between 10 p.m. on February 5th 2014, and 6 a.m. the next day, a number of Simba Hosting services will be being physically moved to a new datacentre. There is nothing you need to do to be… READ MORE