In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 08, 2026 - 18:30 CEST
Jul 08, 2026 - 18:30 CEST
Scheduled - A critical security vulnerability known as "Januscape" has been discovered in KVM, the core virtualization technology powering our infrastructure. This flaw potentially affects all virtual servers across our network. Over the past 24 hours, our team has analyzed the threat and developed an immediate mitigation plan.
This is one of the most severe vulnerabilities reported in KVM to date. While there are currently no public exploits available to compromise host systems, we expect this to change imminently. To ensure the absolute safety of all customer data and our infrastructure, immediate action is mandatory.
What we are doing
Over the next 24 hours, our engineers will work in multiple shifts to apply a security patch to all host systems, which requires a reboot of all virtual servers. Due to the extreme urgency of the situation and the massive scale of the infrastructure, it is unfortunately impossible to schedule individual maintenance windows.
Expected impact
- We expect a brief downtime of 5 to 15 minutes per virtual server. If your server is unreachable for more than 15 minutes, please check this status page for updates regarding potential host-specific issues. If there are no known issues listed, please contact our support.
- For unmanaged server customers: Ensure your VM is reboot-safe. Configure critical software to autostart on boot and terminate cleanly upon a shutdown signal from the host. Please understand that we cannot take responsibility for the internal configuration of unmanaged servers.
- For managed, webhosting, and TeamSpeak 3 customers: You do not need to take any action. Our team manages the configuration and safe reboot of your services automatically.
- As part of the security mitigation, we must globally disable nested virtualization (the ability to run a virtual machine inside your virtual server). This is a highly specific feature, and if your workload relies on it, you are likely aware of it. If this affects you, please reach out to our support immediately to discuss a custom solution.
We understand that this situation is unpleasant and challenging, but we must ensure the safety of all customers.
Affected products
This maintenance applies to every type of virtual server in our infrastructure, including:
- Seeds in the dataforest cloud
- Virtualized Avoro products (VPS, Rootserver, Power Rootserver, NVMe vServer, Compute vServer, Cloud Server)
- Every PHP-Friends vServer; both managed and unmanaged
- Our Plesk web hosting systems and TeamSpeak 3 servers (as these are hosted on the same virtualization platform)
Jul 8, 2026 18:30 - Jul 9, 2026 18:30 CEST
This is one of the most severe vulnerabilities reported in KVM to date. While there are currently no public exploits available to compromise host systems, we expect this to change imminently. To ensure the absolute safety of all customer data and our infrastructure, immediate action is mandatory.
What we are doing
Over the next 24 hours, our engineers will work in multiple shifts to apply a security patch to all host systems, which requires a reboot of all virtual servers. Due to the extreme urgency of the situation and the massive scale of the infrastructure, it is unfortunately impossible to schedule individual maintenance windows.
Expected impact
- We expect a brief downtime of 5 to 15 minutes per virtual server. If your server is unreachable for more than 15 minutes, please check this status page for updates regarding potential host-specific issues. If there are no known issues listed, please contact our support.
- For unmanaged server customers: Ensure your VM is reboot-safe. Configure critical software to autostart on boot and terminate cleanly upon a shutdown signal from the host. Please understand that we cannot take responsibility for the internal configuration of unmanaged servers.
- For managed, webhosting, and TeamSpeak 3 customers: You do not need to take any action. Our team manages the configuration and safe reboot of your services automatically.
- As part of the security mitigation, we must globally disable nested virtualization (the ability to run a virtual machine inside your virtual server). This is a highly specific feature, and if your workload relies on it, you are likely aware of it. If this affects you, please reach out to our support immediately to discuss a custom solution.
We understand that this situation is unpleasant and challenging, but we must ensure the safety of all customers.
Affected products
This maintenance applies to every type of virtual server in our infrastructure, including:
- Seeds in the dataforest cloud
- Virtualized Avoro products (VPS, Rootserver, Power Rootserver, NVMe vServer, Compute vServer, Cloud Server)
- Every PHP-Friends vServer; both managed and unmanaged
- Our Plesk web hosting systems and TeamSpeak 3 servers (as these are hosted on the same virtualization platform)
Jul 8, 2026 18:30 - Jul 9, 2026 18:30 CEST
[dataforest Backbone] Interxion FRA8
Operational
Edge Network (affects all locations)
Operational
DDoS Protection (affects all locations)
Operational
Dedicated Servers (40G / 100G / 400G)
Operational
Facilites
Operational
[Datacenter] maincubes FRA01
Under Maintenance
Datacenter Routing and Switching Infrastructure
Operational
Ceph Cluster
Operational
Virtual Servers
Under Maintenance
Dedicated Servers
Operational
Plesk Web Hosting
Under Maintenance
TeamSpeak3 Servers
Under Maintenance
Network Storage
Operational
Colocation Racks
Operational
Facilites
Operational
[Datacenter] firstcolo FRA4
Operational
Datacenter Routing and Switching Infrastructure
Operational
Dedicated Servers
Operational
Colocation Racks
Operational
Facilites
Operational
General Services
Operational
Avoro CP & Support
Operational
PHP-Friends CRM & Support
Operational
Hotline
Operational
Dedicated Control Panel
Operational
IPMI VPN
Operational
DDoS Manager
Operational
Operational
Degraded Performance
Partial Outage
Major Outage
Maintenance
Major outage
Partial outage
No downtime recorded on this day.
No data exists for this day.
had a major outage.
had a partial outage.
Scheduled Maintenance
Network Maintenance: Dedicated Server Racks (X12 + X13) Jul 9, 2026 00:00-03:00 CEST
We will be performing planned maintenance on the network connectivity of two dedicated server racks at firstcolo FRA4.
What we are doing
We will interconnect each rack pair via MLAG (Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation) between the respective top-of-rack switches. This is an improvement to further increase resilience and operational flexibility.
Expected impact
During the maintenance window, there will be at least two brief network interruptions, expected to be up to 60 seconds (link flap / LACP re-negotiation). Traffic will recover automatically; no customer action is required.
Affected rack pairs
X12 + X13
How to check if you are affected
In our control panel at https://dedicated.dataforest.cloud, open the server and check "Statistics". If one of your ports shows a description containing one of the rack identifiers listed above, your server is part of the maintenance scope.
Additionally affected managed dedicated servers (without access to the control panel): root077
We will complete the work as quickly as possible and aim to keep the interruption to the minimum stated above. Thank you for your understanding.
Posted on Jul 03, 2026 - 16:06 CEST
What we are doing
We will interconnect each rack pair via MLAG (Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation) between the respective top-of-rack switches. This is an improvement to further increase resilience and operational flexibility.
Expected impact
During the maintenance window, there will be at least two brief network interruptions, expected to be up to 60 seconds (link flap / LACP re-negotiation). Traffic will recover automatically; no customer action is required.
Affected rack pairs
X12 + X13
How to check if you are affected
In our control panel at https://dedicated.dataforest.cloud, open the server and check "Statistics". If one of your ports shows a description containing one of the rack identifiers listed above, your server is part of the maintenance scope.
Additionally affected managed dedicated servers (without access to the control panel): root077
We will complete the work as quickly as possible and aim to keep the interruption to the minimum stated above. Thank you for your understanding.
Posted on Jul 03, 2026 - 16:06 CEST
Network Maintenance: Dedicated Server Rack X12 Jul 10, 2026 00:00-02:00 CEST
We will be performing planned maintenance on the network connectivity of the dedicated server rack(s) mentioned below at firstcolo FRA4.
What we are doing
We will update the software of the top-of-rack switches to resolve known bugs and ensure stable operation of the service. After the update, a reboot is required.
Expected impact
During the maintenance window, there will be a network interruption during each switch reboot. The reboot is expected to take up to 20 minutes per switch.
- Servers with only one uplink will lose network connectivity during that reboot. Connectivity should recover automatically once the switch is back online.
- Servers with two uplinks are designed to remain reachable during this maintenance, as one physical uplink will remain available while the other switch is rebooting.
- For servers with two uplinks, correct LACP configuration on the customer side is always required. Two physical uplinks only provide redundancy if they are configured as one LACP channel. If LACP is missing or incorrectly configured on the customer side, the server will become unreachable during the maintenance, even though redundant uplinks are physically available.
dataforest does not verify customer-side LACP configuration for unmanaged dedicated servers. Customers are responsible for ensuring that both provided uplinks are correctly configured and operational.
Affected rack(s)
X12
How to check if you are affected
In our control panel at https://dedicated.dataforest.cloud, open the server and check "Statistics". If one of your ports shows a description containing one of the rack identifiers listed above, your server is part of the maintenance scope.
You can see whether your server has one or two uplinks in your contract or product details. If two uplinks are included, LACP must be configured and actively used on your side.
Additionally affected managed dedicated servers (without access to the control panel): root077
We will complete the work as quickly as possible and aim to keep the interruption to the minimum stated above. Thank you for your understanding.
Posted on Jul 03, 2026 - 16:58 CEST
What we are doing
We will update the software of the top-of-rack switches to resolve known bugs and ensure stable operation of the service. After the update, a reboot is required.
Expected impact
During the maintenance window, there will be a network interruption during each switch reboot. The reboot is expected to take up to 20 minutes per switch.
- Servers with only one uplink will lose network connectivity during that reboot. Connectivity should recover automatically once the switch is back online.
- Servers with two uplinks are designed to remain reachable during this maintenance, as one physical uplink will remain available while the other switch is rebooting.
- For servers with two uplinks, correct LACP configuration on the customer side is always required. Two physical uplinks only provide redundancy if they are configured as one LACP channel. If LACP is missing or incorrectly configured on the customer side, the server will become unreachable during the maintenance, even though redundant uplinks are physically available.
dataforest does not verify customer-side LACP configuration for unmanaged dedicated servers. Customers are responsible for ensuring that both provided uplinks are correctly configured and operational.
Affected rack(s)
X12
How to check if you are affected
In our control panel at https://dedicated.dataforest.cloud, open the server and check "Statistics". If one of your ports shows a description containing one of the rack identifiers listed above, your server is part of the maintenance scope.
You can see whether your server has one or two uplinks in your contract or product details. If two uplinks are included, LACP must be configured and actively used on your side.
Additionally affected managed dedicated servers (without access to the control panel): root077
We will complete the work as quickly as possible and aim to keep the interruption to the minimum stated above. Thank you for your understanding.
Posted on Jul 03, 2026 - 16:58 CEST