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COMPLETED Windows Control Panel Maintenance

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600

Maintenance notice for Tuesday, March 3rd, at approximately 9:00 AM CST CFDynamics will be performing Maintenance on the the Windows Control Panel located in your client area dashboard. The Control Panel Links and access will be unavailable and offline until the process has been completed. The process could be expected to take 2 to 6 hours to complete. Upon completion this news item will be titled COMPLETED and Control Panel links to the server will be restored. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us. Thank you, CFDynamics Support Team

PHP Update Roadmap

Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500

PHP Update Roadmap

Host01 Linux server Upgrade COMPLETED

Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Upon completion this News Item Title will be changed from Scheduled to Complete We take the condition, security and performance of our servers very seriously; in order to provide the best available service we are moving your site to an upgraded Linux server environment. This will be a full LIVE upgrade. This move will take place starting Monday June 3rd at approximately 4AM CST, with an expected time frame of 2-4 hours. During this time frame you should expect connectivity to be completely unavailable or very intermittent. We recommend that you make no changes to the content on your site during this time frame. Once the upgrade has been completed, only PHP 8.x builds will be available. All older end of life PHP versions (5.x 7.x) will no longer be available. You can test and update to a more current version prior to the server update. See PHP Update Roadmap See below for instructions on how to make the change yourself right now: Login to the Control Panel from the Client Dashboard In the left navigation bar Click Server Configuration to expand Click PHP Options Select the desired Version Click the Save button To further clarify the 2-4 hour Maintenance window starting Monday June 3rd at approximately 4AM CST. We do not expect 2-4 full hours of down time; we fully expect that individual sites should be unavailable for a few minutes at most with possible spotty connectivity during that time frame. During the 2-4 hour time frame we are asking that site owners refrain from making any changes to ensure proper migration. If you experience any issues after the Update has been completed please contact support.

Host02 Linux server Upgrade COMPLETED

Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Upon completion this News Item Title will be changed from Scheduled to Complete We take the condition, security and performance of our servers very seriously; in order to provide the best available service we are moving your site to an upgraded Linux server environment. This will be a full LIVE upgrade. This move will take place starting Tuesday June 4th at approximately 4AM CST, with an expected time frame of 2-4 hours. During this time frame you should expect connectivity to be completely unavailable or very intermittent. We recommend that you make no changes to the content on your site during this time frame. Once the upgrade has been completed, only PHP 8.x builds will be available. All older end of life PHP versions (5.x 7.x) will no longer be available. You can test and update to a more current version prior to the server update. See PHP Update Roadmap See below for instructions on how to make the change yourself right now: Login to the Control Panel from the Client Dashboard In the left navigation bar Click Server Configuration to expand Click PHP Options Select the desired Version Click the Save button To further clarify the 2-4 hour Maintenance window starting Tuesday June 4th at approximately 4AM CST. We do not expect 2-4 full hours of down time; we fully expect that individual sites should be unavailable for a few minutes at most with possible spotty connectivity during that time frame. During the 2-4 hour time frame we are asking that site owners refrain from making any changes to ensure proper migration. If you experience any issues after the Update has been completed please contact support.

Log4j and ColdFusion

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600

There is a critical security vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) in the Log4j, which is a popular logging library for Java-based applications. The vulnerability also impacts Adobe ColdFusion.

The following actions are being recommended by Adobe.

https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/log4j-vulnerability-coldfusion.html

Follow the instructions that are suitable for your environment.

These changes have already been implemented in the Shared Server Environments

Network Ping

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600

Effective immediately we are no longer allowing pings to public IP addresses on our network. This may affect 3rd party monitoring tools that use ping. Please select an alternative method if you use these tools. Pings to public IP addresses are allowed when connected through the VPN. Thank you, CFDynamics Support Team

MySQL02 OS Upgrade COMPLETED

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500

MySQL02 OS Upgrade Sunday, November 14th, at approximately 6:00 AM CST Please be advised that we will be upgrading the OS for DB Server MySQL02. The process will occur on Sunday, November 14th, at approximately 6:00 AM CST. Your existing DSN or DB connection will become unavailable for 20 to 30 minutes during this process to insure that no data is being written to the DB until the upgrade is complete. Upon completion this news item will be titled COMPLETED and networking and ODBC connections to the server will be restored. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us. This applies to MySQL02. Thank you, CFDynamics Support Team

MySQL Server Upgrade COMPLETED

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Upgrade COMPLETED Tuesday, May 4th, at approximately 5:00 AM CST CFDynamics is pleased to announce that we will be upgrading to MariaDB 10.3* This will be a full LIVE upgrade of the existing MySQL 5.5.*. The process will occur on Tuesday, May 4th, at approximately 5:00 AM CST. Your existing DSN or DB connection will become unavailable for a few minutes for a couple times during this process to insure that no data is being written to the DB until the upgrade is complete. Check the items in the change list found below to see whether any of them might affect your applications. If you suspect anything on the list below will affect your application please contact us prior to the update. Upon completion this news item will be titled COMPLETED and networking and ODBC connections to the server will be restored. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us. This applies to host01 and car-host02 and MySQL02. https://mariadb.com/kb/en/release-notes-mariadb-103-series/ Thank you, CFDynamics Support Team

SSL Certificate Mandated Change

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500

INDUSTRY MANDATED CHANGE

COUNTDOWN TO ONE-YEAR CERTIFICATES: 34 DAYS

Starting Wednesday, August 19, 2020, CFDynamics will no longer be able to offer two-year public TLS certificates due to an industry-wide requirement set by Apple and Google, stating that any two-year TLS certificate issued after August 30, 2020 will be distrusted in their browsers.

Any two-year TLS certificate issued before 12:00am UTC on August 19, 2020 will be valid for two-years (up to 825 days). Beginning August 19, 2020, Sectigo will only be issuing one-year (up to 398 days) TLS certificates.

This only applies to public TLS certificates. Private-root and other types of certificates (e.g. Code Signing Certificates, S/MIME certificates, etc.) will be unaffected and will have the same maximum validity that they have today.

CFDynamics will be offering Subscription SSL bundles through Sectigo for our customers who purchase certificates through our websites. See additional information below on Subscription SSL offers.

Thank you,

CFDynamics

Subscription SSL

CFDynamics is happy to announce Subscription SSL packages that will offer bundles of maximum duration certificates (398 days), allowing a customer to obtain continuous certificate coverage for up to five years.

Sectigo Subscription SSL bundles are currently offered for single, multi-domain and wildcard DV and OV TLS/SSL certificates.

Retain revenue from renewing multi-year certificates and benefit from offering both new and one-year customers Subscription SSL.

To meet industry regulations, the certificate will initially be issued with a 398-day validity period. Sectigo can send you or your customers reminders when the time comes via email or push notifications. As with all Sectigo certificates, your customers can reissue their certificates at any time and as many times as they like. No more lost days or weeks on trying to time a new purchase and re-submission.

PHP update Completed

Tue, 16 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500

CFDynamics is pleased to announce that we will be updating all Linux based PHP websites. This allows enhanced performance and security also updated versions of many open source software packages are actually starting to require newer PHP builds. We will be upgrading all websites located on Linux servers designated as host01 & car-host02 to PHP 7.2.* This will be a quick version change from PHP 5.2.* The process will occur on Monday May 6th, at approximately 7:00 AM CST. Check the items in the change list found below to see whether any of them might affect your applications. If you suspect anything on the list below will affect your application please contact us prior to the update. Upon completion web, networking and ODBC connections to the server will be restored. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us. https://www.php.net/releases/7_2_16.php See below for instructions on how to make the change yourself right now. Login to the Control Panel from the Client Dashboard In the left navigation bar Click Server Configuration to expand Click PHP Versions Select the desired Version Click the Save Versions button Thank you, CFDynamics Support Team

Network Maintenance Update Two

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500

The network maintenance to work on IPX has been updated to the following. Activity Location: Dallas Data Centers Activity Date: 10/27/2018 â€“ 10/28/2018 Activity Time: 10:00 p.m. CDT Daily Duration: 8 Hours Impact: Up to 5 minutes of downtime on each individual circuit. In a continuing effort to improve our customer's bandwidth service reliability and performance, the IP/IX Network Services team has provisioned a new networking platform to deliver the latest in networking technologies and performance. The IP/IX Network Services team will be performing maintenance on the IP/IX platform routers at the Dallas Data Centers on Saturday, September 22nd, starting at 10:00 p.m. CDT through Sunday, September 23rd, 06:00 a.m. The scope of the work will include migrating IP/IX customers from the legacy platform to the new platform. The maintenance window is scheduled for 8 hours, during which the customer circuits will be migrated. Customers will experience up to 5 minutes of network downtime on their individual circuit while they are being migrated. Each circuit will be migrated separately. Because you are hosted on redundant circuits, you shouldnâ€™t notice any significant down time, but possibly a slight slow down in service. Overall we anticipate that you will not see any service issues. The title above will be changed to include -Completed, when the maintenance and any additional testing is finished. If you have any questions regarding this change, please create a ticket through the support system https://cfdynamics.com/manage/.

IPS/IDS Updates

Mon, 05 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600

On Sunday, March 11th we will be performing needed updates on our IPS/IDS security appliances between 2 and 3 AM CST. This should have minimal impact on network services as we expect only 3-5 seconds of the outage, with a possibility of up to 30-45 seconds while the appliances are updated and rebooted. Once the update is complete we will be accomplished performance testing as well as verification of security policies.

MySQL Server Upgrade COMPLETED

Mon, 10 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500

Upgrade notice forÂ Monday, July 31st, at approximately 5:00 AM CST

CFDynamics is pleased to announce that we will be upgrading to MariaDB 5.5.57. This will be a full LIVE upgrade of the existing MySQL 5.1.69. The process will occur on Monday, July 31st, at approximately 5:00 AM CST. Your existing DSN will become unavailable for a few minutes for a couple times during this process to insure that no data is being written to the DB until the upgrade is complete. Check the items in the change list found below to see whether any of them might affect your applications. If you suspect anything on the list below will affect your application please contact us prior to the update.

Upon completion this news item will be titled COMPLETE and networking and ODBC connections to the server will be restored. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us.

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/what-is-mariadb-55/

Thank you, CFDynamics Support Team

Network Status

Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 -0600

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