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St. Louis Switch Reload

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 12:03:20 AM CST

Tomorrow night 6/20/18 at 10 P.M. Central, we will be reloading a secondary switch in a switching pair for a portion of our St. Louis network. There is not any expected downtime as traffic will continue to flow throw the active member. If you have any questions, please submit a ticket to our Support Team.

CPR5 Connectivity Issues Resolved

Thursday, June 14, 2018 7:13:13 AM CST

CPR5 experienced some unexpected problems that caused connectivity issues to some websites. This has been resolved.

If you have any questions, please contact support at https://support.hostek.com.

Network Outage

Saturday, June 09, 2018 3:39:33 PM CST

An outage occurred at approximately 16:00 GMT due to an issue with one of our upstream providers. Updates will be provided once further information has been gathered.

Microsoft Update might negatively affect RDP access

Wednesday, May 23, 2018 2:48:25 PM CST

Micorosft released a security update this May that patched an RDP vulnerability.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mckittrick/unable-to-rdp-to-virtual-machine-credssp-encryption-oracle-remediation/

However, if your client machines updates before your VPS does, you could lose RDP access.

If your VPS is affected, You might see an error that reads:

"An Authentication error has occurred. The function requested is not supported. This could be due to CredSSP encryption oracle remediation."

Contact our support and we will help remedy the situation. But, we recommend updating your VPS immediatley, before your client machines do.

CPCF4 Connectivity Restored

Thursday, May 10, 2018 10:27:29 PM CST

CPCF4 experienced some unexpected problems during routine maintenance that caused connectivity issues to some websites. To resolve this, we restored the server to its working condition before any maintenance was done-- 6PM CST this evening. Any changes between then and now to your website will need to be re-submitted.