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

3rd June 2024

No incidents reported

2nd June 2024

No incidents reported

1st June 2024

No incidents reported

31st May 2024

DNS outage (resolved)

About 1 hour ago a failed DNS sync with our alternate DNS provider caused an outage in our DNS servers. The outage lasted approximately 1 hour during which customers may have experience trouble accessing Opalstack systems.

The problem has been resolved and all DNS services are working normally at this time, however there may be lingering effects due to global DNS propagation. These issues will resolve themselves over the next few hours. You may be able to resolve them sooner for yourself by flushing your DNS and/or by power-cycling your devices.

30th May 2024

Web: San Francisco Intermittent high load on opal14

At this time we are tracking an high load condition on opal14.opalstack.com (San Francisco shared hosting) which has been causing the server to become unresponsive on an intermittent basis. The problem appears to be caused by high memory usage by the system Apache service.

We're working to identify the customer site that is causing the high memory usage and will work with them to resolve the issue once we've identified it.

  • We believe we identified the customer site that has been causing these issues and have taken action to mitigate it. We will continue to monitor a couple more days.

  • 29th May 2024

    No incidents reported

    28th May 2024

    No incidents reported