[COMPLETED] Scheduled maintenance - WPWebHost Servers Security Update

Date : 8th Jun 2019
Time : 3:20 AM MDT 


Maintenance Update:

Scheduled maintenance to perform security patches which included a kernel update for all Linux shared servers has been completed.  All service hosts under aforementioned servers are responding and will now resume their operations without any noticeable service impact. 


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Dear Valued Customers,


***All WPWebHost clients will be affected ***


Date : 8th Jun 2019
Time : 12:01 AM - 5.00 AM MDT
ETA:  30 mins for each server


Maintenance details:

Our team will perform security patches which included kernel update for all Linux shared servers to fix the MDS vulnerability of CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, and CVE-2019-11091.


What is MDS?

MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling) is a CPU side vulnerability. It is a significant security vulnerability that affects cloud providers with multi-tenant environments.


Maintenance affects:
All services will be temporarily inaccessible during our reboot to apply new kernel.


If you need further information and clarification on the maintenance or if you experience difficulties after the maintenance period, please contact us via https://support.wpwebhost.com/en/support/tickets/new.


Support Team

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Technical Support Department