Is Simply Hosting & Servers down?

One of our UK to Ireland links is currently down. The Redundant paths are functioning as expect so no impact is expected but the network should be considered at risk at this time. We have a case open with the carrier and are awaiting updates.

Our carrier has confirmed the problem and is working to resolve it.

Our carrier has now solved the issue and normal network redundancy is restored. We will proceed to close this incident.

On October 20, two critical PHP vulnerabilities were announced: CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. These vulnerabilities have a CVSS score of 9.2 and could potentially be exploited to execute code remotely on a server without requiring authentication. The vulnerabilities may affect all PHP versions starting from PHP 5. If you use PHP on your Bare Metal, Dedicated Server, VPS, we strongly recommend updating PHP with the patches that are available. If you are running cPanel/Plesk, patches are also available, and you should apply them. If you have a site/s running on these products from us, we recommend that you review your PHP usage and the version being used by you or your customers and take relevant actions. If you have managed server/vps with us, then these are/have been patched by our teams.

This incident has been resolved.

On October 20, two critical PHP vulnerabilities were announced: CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. These vulnerabilities have a CVSS score of 9.2 and could potentially be exploited to execute code remotely on a server without requiring authentication. The vulnerabilities may affect all PHP versions starting from PHP 5. If you use PHP on your Bare Metal, Dedicated Server, VPS, we strongly recommend updating PHP with the patches that are available. If you are running cPanel/Plesk, patches are also available, and you should apply them. If you have a site/s running on these products from us, we recommend that you review your PHP usage and the version being used by you or your customers and take relevant actions. If you have managed server/vps with us, then these are/have been patched by our teams.

On 20 October 2026, the Global PHP Security Team announced two critical security vulnerabilities. The official security updates were released the following day. Since millions of websites worldwide rely on PHP, the announcement understandably caused concern, and we received a large number of questions from our customers. Rightly so: the security of your website is extremely important. The good news? We took immediate action. Teams have been working non-stop to address the issue, taking mitigating measures where possible while waiting for the official software patches, and rolling out those patches as soon as they became available. All systems that could have been impacted on our hosting & company platforms have now been patched. Not every website runs on the latest PHP version. Some still use older versions, for example because certain plugins or applications are incompatible with a newer PHP release. Our teams went the extra mile and also adapted the security fixes for some older PHP versions. This process is called backporting: adapting a security patch so it also works with an older software version. It’s not simply a matter of copying a file. Our engineers have to manually implement, compile and test the necessary changes. The PHP project currently officially supports versions 8.2 through 8.5. Older versions no longer receive regular security updates. It goes without saying though, if you are on an older version of PHP, please update this.

One of our UK to Ireland links is currently down. The Redundant paths are functioning as expect so no impact is expected but the network should be considered at risk at this time. We have a case open with the carrier and are awaiting updates.

One of our UK to Ireland links is currently down. The Redundant paths are functioning as expect so no impact is expected but the network should be considered at risk at this time. We have a case open with the carrier and are awaiting updates. The Carrier has confirmed the issue is resolved, we have monitored and are happy to now end the at risk period.