Stickied Incidents

12th September 2024

Web: Washington D.C. opal12 blocked by Malwarebytes

At this time opal12.opalstack.com (Washington DC shared hosting) is being blocked by Malwarebytes. The cause was an outbound SSH attack from a compromised customer shell account which caused the server to be listed in a major block list. As a result visitors who use Malwarebytes may see a warning when visiting sites hosted on opal12.

We're working with the block list operator to have the server delisted and expect to have this resolved within the next couple of days.

In the meantime, you may be able to work around the problem by adding your site domain and/or server IP 207.244.121.250 to your Malwarebytes exception list.

Past Incidents

13th March 2023

No incidents reported

12th March 2023

No incidents reported

11th March 2023

No incidents reported

10th March 2023

No incidents reported

9th March 2023

No incidents reported

8th March 2023

No incidents reported

7th March 2023

Email: USA US webmail performance issues

We're aware that the US webmail server has been having intermittent timeout issues, particularly during US business hours.

We're working to resolve this but we expect that it will take at least a couple of weeks. Our recommended workaround in the interim is to use a desktop mail client or to run your own webmail server separately from our managed webmail instance.

Desktop email client configuration info is available in our user guide at: Email Client Configuration

If you'd like to run your own webmail server setup instructions are available at: HOWTO run your own Roundcube webmail server on Opalstack

We've seen no further performance issues on the US webmail system since implementing the new proxy, so we consider this issue to be resolved.

We've deployed a new IMAP proxy on the US webmail server and the performance seems much better at this time. We'll continue to monitor.