All systems are operational
Maintenance
Scheduled network maintenance for opal3 and opal8

On 20 August 2026 between 11:00am and 4:00pm PDT (UTC-7) our data center team will be upgrading the racks that host the following servers:

  • opal3.opalstack.com
  • opal8.opalstack.com

During the 5-hour maintenance window, network connectivity to the affected servers will be interrupted for up to 1 hour during which websites and other services hosted on the servers will be unavailable.

Email and DNS services will not be affected.

The hosting control panel will remain online, but will be unable to apply changes to your services until connectivity to the server is restored.

Affected customers who would like have their services relocated to a different server prior to 20 August 2026 should contact the Opalstack support team to make the necessary arrangements.

Scheduled US IMAP email server downtime

On 26 August 2026 at between 11:00 am and 4:00 pm US/Pacific time our network team will be performing infrastructure maintenance. During this 5-hour window, network connectivity to one of our US IMAP/POP3 email servers will be interrupted for up to 1 hour.

As a result, some customer mailboxes will be unavailable for up to 1 hour during the network interruption. Customers who will be impacted by the interruption have been emailed directly.

No incoming mail will be lost during the interruption. Mail that arrives during the interruption will be deferred and delivered once connectivity to the mail server is restored.

Email forwarding and SMTP services will not be affected, however messages sent via SMTP during the interruption will not be stored as sent mail in IMAP folders on the server.

We'll update our status page at http://status.opalstack.com/ at the beginning of the maintenance window. To be informed of system status updates automatically please subscribe at https://status.opalstack.com/subscribe.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this maintenance then please contact the Opalstack support team.

Past Incidents

9th August 2021

No incidents reported

8th August 2021

Dashboard Dashboard control loop issue

At this time there is an issue with our control loop which deploys changes from the dashboard to our servers. Dashboard changes will remain pending until the issue is resolved. We'll update this post as soon as possible.

  • The dashboard and API are back online.

    The problem was caused by human error by one of our team while using our admin shell to make a mass update to a single customer's websites during a migration. This kicked off a massive cascade of events which overloaded the control loop.

    This was strictly an admin error - the WebFaction migration tool that many customers are using is safe to use.

    We've rolled back the updates and have cleared the pending updates from the control loop and all systems are operating normally at this time.

    This issue affected Apache/PHP-CGI applications in the dashboard. We believe there should not be any lingering issues but if you notice a problem with any of your Apache/PHP-CGI applications then please try an edit+save cycle on the application and wait a minute for the changes to take effect. If the problem persists then please contact Opalstack Support for further assistance.

  • We've taken the dashboard offline while we work to resolve this.

  • 7th August 2021

    No incidents reported

    6th August 2021

    No incidents reported

    5th August 2021

    No incidents reported

    4th August 2021

    No incidents reported

    3rd August 2021

    No incidents reported