The Road Ahead

For many years we've use Uptime Kuma to power our service service status website, status.calzadamedia.net. It has worked quietly, efficiently and reliably and was amongst the easier third party open source tools we have used in our infrastructure. As tools develop and mature, their direction sometimes diverges from our requirements and it may need to be replaced.

We've reached that point with Uptime Kuma, and we have replaced it with an equivalent tool, Statping-ng. Statping-ng provides the same customer facing service status, albeit with a slightly different interface. The website address, status.calzadamedia.net, has not changed nor has it's isolation - it runs on it's own dedicated server independent of all our servers and systems.

Uptime Kuma is still a fine self-hosted monitoring tool, and we would gladly recommend it to anyone looking for one in the home lab or similar. For our needs, Statping-ng is currently a better fit.

We've made a few alterations to our Legal Documents and Policies overview and revised our Free Software Licence.

Changes to Legal Documents and Policies page

We've revised the wording of the Legal Documents and Policies overview page to make the language easier to understand and to add a general clarification as to the legal framework we operate under - we are a UK company registered in England and Wales and operate under English Law.

There have not been any alterations to individual Legal Document and Policies.

Free Software Licence

Our Free Software Licence is the licence that applies, unless otherwise stated, to our free software tools and utilities like Cerberus and the Online Support Tools.

We've reworded and condensed the licence to make it easier to understand. The underlying principles remain the same: the software is released "AS IS" and you use it entirely at your own risk.

We wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous 2025!

Calzada Media services are unaffected by the ongoing worldwide IT problems. If you are affected, we recommend you check any available status or service information page for your provider.

Sadly, we are ceasing the sale of new Hosted Exchange services with immediate effect (20th September 2022). Hosted Exchange services for existing customers will be discontinued on the 15th November 2022.

This is not a decision we have made lightly nor wish to have made. Regrettably, our Hosted Exchange service provider is substantially increasing costs for the second year running and it is no longer financially viable for us to continue to offer Hosted Exchange services.

We have attempt to find alternative providers within the UK, but without any success.

We will be contacting all affected customers this week and will work with them to find a different provider or an alternative solution.