The Road Ahead

As you may have seen in the media (BBC), two critical security vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. The PHP developers have released security updates to address these issues.

All of our servers and systems are subject to continuous patch management with critical updates being deployed as soon as they are made available. Although the PHP developers have released security updates, there may be a short delay until these fixes become available through the various update channels. As soon as an update is made available, it is being installed.

Windows Hosting Services

PHP is not currently installed on our Windows hosting servers.

Linux Hosting

Although PHP is often viewed as a core Linux component, it is only installed in a few of our servers.

As of 14:30 (BST) today, all of our Linux server operating systems have been updated to the latest available updates.

We will performing routine maintenance and update to our windows hosting services tonight, 21st September 2026, from around 19:00 BST. We anticipate this work will take around an hour during which time access to services may be impaired or interrupted.

This maintenance work does not affect our mail and other services, including our online status website at https://status.calzadamedia.net

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.

Regular scheduled maintenance to our email services will be taking place later today from around 19:00 BST onwards. Due to the work involved, there may be short periods of service impairment or interruption.

We will be performing routine maintenance and upgrades to our mail services from around 21:00 GMT tonight (25th February 2026). This will - inevitably - result in some service interruption as updates are applied and the relevant services are restarted.