Hosting UK incident

Critical Updates for mail5

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Hosting UK experienced a minor incident on February 5, 2026, lasting 2h 16m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Feb 05, 2026, 09:36 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 05, 2026, 11:52 PM UTC
Duration
2h 16m
Detected by Pingoru
Feb 05, 2026, 09:36 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. investigating Feb 05, 2026, 09:36 PM UTC

    We are currently peforming critical updates to the mail4.hostinguk.net (also accessed via mail6.hostinguk.net) and mail2.hostinguk.net servers. Services including POP, IMAP, and SMTP will unavailable until this work is complete, with the maintenance window is expected to last several hours. We apologise for any difficulties caused by this maintenance causes.

  2. resolved Feb 05, 2026, 11:52 PM UTC

    Updates are complete. Should you encounter any issues post updates, please contact our support teams via your client area at https://billing.hostinguk.net