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About This Site

Welcome to the MediaBlaze Hosts System Status page.

We are proud to offer a reliable service to our customers. However, from time to time, we may experience issues – rest assured, we will always be on top of the problem to restore functionality as quickly as possible.

We are continuously improving our platform and, in order to do that, we schedule our maintenance windows outside business hours.

Follow us on twitter or subscribe to updates on this page to receive notifications of any works carried out or incidents involving our network.

This server is hosted in Finland so it is geographically separate from our UK data centres and network infrastructure.

For any queries, please call: 0333 335 0166 or tweet us: @mediablazehosts

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Stickied Incidents

Wednesday 21st October 2026

CRITICAL: PHP security vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619)

The PHP project has announced two critical security vulnerabilities in PHP itself. PHP is used by most websites, including WordPress, Joomla and many other applications, so this affects hosting providers worldwide. Technical details have not yet been published, and there is currently no complete workaround. The only full fix is an updated version of PHP. PHP has scheduled fixed releases for 14:00 UTC today (21 October 2026).

What we have done:

  • Applied the currently known mitigations across our shared hosting servers and the servers we manage for customers. These reduce risk but do not fully protect against the vulnerabilities, which is why patching remains essential.
  • Put additional monitoring in place to help us identify suspicious activity.
  • Started working with our upstream partners (the control panel and PHP vendors) so that patched versions can be tested and applied across all servers as soon as they are available to us.
  • Applied some restrictions to our own websites based on the reported vulnerabilities

Timeline:

  • Once the PHP project releases its fixes (at 14:00 UTC), our vendors need to package them for our platforms. We do not control that timing, but we will roll out patches as soon as they are available.
  • Patches will be applied server-wide. You do not need to do anything to receive them, and we will update this page when they are applied.
  • Some older PHP versions (8.1 and below) are not expected to receive an official fix.
  • There may be some downtime caused from patching. PHP processes may restart briefly.

Recommendations:

  • Use a supported PHP version (8.2 or newer) for your sites if you can. You can change this in your control panel.
  • Keep your website software, plugins and themes up to date, and remove any you no longer use.
  • If you would prefer to take your site offline until patches are applied, you can do this yourself, for example with a maintenance mode plugin. We are not able to take individual sites offline and bring them back on request, and you do not need to wait for us to contact you before restoring your site.

If you notice anything unusual, such as unfamiliar files, new admin users or unexpected redirects, please contact support.

We will keep this page updated throughout the process.

Many thanks The MediaBlaze Hosts Team

  • All of our cPanel shared hosting has now been fully updated with all PHP versions from 5.6 up running the patch which closes this vulnerability. However we highly recommend moving to PHP 8.2 or higher. But ensure you have backups before doing this as it may break some older applications.

    • Friday 25th July 2025

    Shared Web Hosting Shared Hosting Services Unavailable

    We are aware of an issue affecting our Shared Hosting, Basic Email Hosting and our own publicly facing website and billing portal.

    We are looking into this and will update as soon as we have finished investigating.

    Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

    The MediaBlaze Hosts Team

    Maintenance
    Account Migrations - Tuesday 11th June 2024

    UPDATE 11/06/24 21:40:

    Our account migrations have now been completed.

    If you are experiencing any issues with your site, please get in touch. Remember, if your site does not use our DNS servers, you will need to update this manually with your provider.

    Many thanks The MediaBlaze Hosts Team

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    As part of our ongoing process to ensure our servers remain secure and updated, we will be migrating our shared hosting services.

    This is required because the operating system your server currently uses will be End-Of-Life in Q3 2024, and will no longer receive security or other updates after this date.

    THIS CHANGE ONLY APPLIES TO OUR SHARED WEB HOSTING AND BASIC EMAIL HOSTING PRODUCTS

    The migration date will be Tuesday 11th of June 2024

    IF YOU ARE USING OUR DNS SERVERS

    Provided you do not use an external DNS service, such as Cloudflare, then you should ensure that the nameservers associated with any domains are set to:

    ns1.mediablazehosts.coop

    ns2.mediablazehosts.coop

    Email client settings: If you or your customers have not yet switched to using our domain name (e.g. mail.mediablazehosts.coop) as your mail server hostname name for incoming and outgoing server settings in your mail client, we strongly recommend that you do so before the migration date as this will reduce any downtime on the date of migration, and make any future migrations simpler.

    The details of your new server will be:

    IP: 149.255.58.142

    IF YOU USE THE FOLLOWING DNS SERVERS YOUR RECORDS WILL BE UPDATED BY US AUTOMATICALLY AND NO ACTION IS NEEDED BY YOU.

    ns1.coopdns.network

    ns2.coopdns.network

    IF YOU USE AN EXTERNAL DNS SERVICE - FOR EXAMPLE CLOUDFLARE

    If domains on your hosting account(s) are not using our shared DNS servers, then you will need to update your DNS services to point to the following location on the day of migration:

    IP: 149.255.58.142 POP/IMAP: mail.mediablazehosts.coop

    IF YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS

    Our support team stands ready to answer any of your questions - if you would like to contact us then please do so via the support ticket system or by emailing cs@mediablazehosts.coop or calling us on 0333 335 0166.

    Many thanks

    The MediaBlaze Hosts Team

    Past Incidents

    Wednesday 21st October 2026

    CRITICAL: PHP security vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619)

    The PHP project has announced two critical security vulnerabilities in PHP itself. PHP is used by most websites, including WordPress, Joomla and many other applications, so this affects hosting providers worldwide. Technical details have not yet been published, and there is currently no complete workaround. The only full fix is an updated version of PHP. PHP has scheduled fixed releases for 14:00 UTC today (21 October 2026).

    What we have done:

    • Applied the currently known mitigations across our shared hosting servers and the servers we manage for customers. These reduce risk but do not fully protect against the vulnerabilities, which is why patching remains essential.
    • Put additional monitoring in place to help us identify suspicious activity.
    • Started working with our upstream partners (the control panel and PHP vendors) so that patched versions can be tested and applied across all servers as soon as they are available to us.
    • Applied some restrictions to our own websites based on the reported vulnerabilities

    Timeline:

    • Once the PHP project releases its fixes (at 14:00 UTC), our vendors need to package them for our platforms. We do not control that timing, but we will roll out patches as soon as they are available.
    • Patches will be applied server-wide. You do not need to do anything to receive them, and we will update this page when they are applied.
    • Some older PHP versions (8.1 and below) are not expected to receive an official fix.
    • There may be some downtime caused from patching. PHP processes may restart briefly.

    Recommendations:

    • Use a supported PHP version (8.2 or newer) for your sites if you can. You can change this in your control panel.
    • Keep your website software, plugins and themes up to date, and remove any you no longer use.
    • If you would prefer to take your site offline until patches are applied, you can do this yourself, for example with a maintenance mode plugin. We are not able to take individual sites offline and bring them back on request, and you do not need to wait for us to contact you before restoring your site.

    If you notice anything unusual, such as unfamiliar files, new admin users or unexpected redirects, please contact support.

    We will keep this page updated throughout the process.

    Many thanks The MediaBlaze Hosts Team

  • All of our cPanel shared hosting has now been fully updated with all PHP versions from 5.6 up running the patch which closes this vulnerability. However we highly recommend moving to PHP 8.2 or higher. But ensure you have backups before doing this as it may break some older applications.

    • About MediaBlaze Hosts

    MediaBlaze Hosts is a trading name of MediaBlaze Hosting Ltd Registered in England as a worker co-operative society under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 Registration Number: 32025R Registered Address: International House, 61 Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3HZ. We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office. Reg No. ZA491682