Vault 1 by Calco

Vault 1 by Calco Vault 1 is a hosting company formed by Calco UK Limited. We supply super-fast solid state drive hosting with SSL & Back-up.

22/08/2024

UPDATE WINDOWS IMMEDIATELY
Users of Windows should be aware of a recent exploit which can be used to gain access to PCs WITHOUT the user clicking on anything. This kind of exploit is called "A Zero Click Exploit". Suffice to say you should ensure your Windows Software is configured for AUTOMATIC UPDATES which should patch the exploit and future ones as and when they are discovered.

02/01/2024

SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
We received some disturbing news from the Datacentre where our production servers are located, informing us that our fees for hosting websites are to rise by almost 100%. They cite electricity and costs in general as the reason for their large increase in fees. We have therefore been forced us to make a small increase to our own prices with immediate effect. Depending on the service, these increases will be around (per annum) a pound on uk domains, 2 pounds on TLD domains and speciality domains, and 10 pounds on hosting. Other services will also carry price adjustments. Service and hosting products will remain the same high quality as usual, no cost saving measures will be taken. We have calculated that these small increases should cover or datacentre overheads and allow us to continue trading normally.

HAPPY NEW YEAR
02/01/2024

HAPPY NEW YEAR

10/01/2023

SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Scheduled for:
Tuesday, 10-Jan-23 21:00:00 UTC
To be completed:
Wednesday, 11-Jan-23 01:00:00 UTC
Description:
Core network maintenance has been scheduled for our London, UK datacentre TODAY; Tuesday 10th January from 2100 UTC for up to 4 hours. We will be conducting route optimisations and introducing additional capacity into our core network. While we do not expect any significant downtime, a brief period of increased latency or packet loss may occur as traffic is migrated to the new design. We ask that customers consider services "At Risk" for the entire maintenance window and apologise for any inconvenience caused by this work. We STRONGLY advise NOT updating any Wordpress websites during this period, nor any procedures that require direct editing on the server.

MERRY CHRISTMAS To all our clients from the team here in Kyle. We hope 2023 will be a successful year for you all.
25/12/2022

MERRY CHRISTMAS
To all our clients from the team here in Kyle. We hope 2023 will be a successful year for you all.

16/10/2022

SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
UK Emergency Maintenance - Upstream hardware replacement.
Scheduled for:
Sunday, 16-Oct-22 23:00:00 UTC
To be completed:
Monday, 17-Oct-22 04:00:00 UTC
Description:
We have been notified of urgent, emergency maintenance on one of the 100G optical circuits used by one of our datacentres. They've told us that the nature of this work is to perform infrastructure hardware replacement. Work is required to undertake infrastructure maintenance on core equipment to ensure the continued integrity of the network. During the maintenance window, London based services along with our control panels may experience brief periods of service disruption as traffic re-routes.

13/12/2021

SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 17 DEC 2021
KVM23-36 & KVMHost39-40
Scheduled for:
Friday, 17-Dec-21 05:00:00 UTC
To be completed:
Friday, 17-Dec-21 09:00:00 UTC
A maintenance window has been scheduled between 0500 and 0900 UTC on Friday 17th December. During this period, the highlighted machines will be powered down, and vital hardware upgrades will be enacted.

VAULT 1 CDN ADDITIONSWhat is CDN and why does it matter.A Content Delivery Network (CDN) makes a website load faster for...
13/07/2021

VAULT 1 CDN ADDITIONS
What is CDN and why does it matter.
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) makes a website load faster for visitors, no matter where in the world they are browsing from.

This is achieved by storing or caching, copies of your website on servers on a network edge. E.g. If your website is hosted in a UK data centre, there will probably be a delay if you try to access that site from Australia. Therefore we copy your website to a server physically nearer the user. It's called a Point of Presence or POP.

With Vault 1 CDN, you will have Multiple copies of your website stored at different POPs throughout the world, ready to serve any visitor who connects from nearby. Therefore your site will load faster in far flung places.
Some companies like Cloudflare charge for this service; Vault 1 include this and a suite of site speeding tools in your package at no extra cost!
Here is a comparison chart:-

09/04/2021

SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT : (resolved)
VPS - Emergency Hypervisor Maintenance: kvmhost28, scheduled 17 hours ago
Our monitoring systems have alerted us to an increased number of error corrections from a single memory module in one of our VPS hosts. All systems use ECC memory so this has no impact on live services, however, to ensure any unscheduled service interruptions we will carry out emergency maintenance to replace the faulty module ASAP.

A maintenance window has been scheduled between 1900 and 2000 GMT+1 on Thursday 8th April 2021.

As always, we will do everything possible to minimise any downtime. All VPS hosted on this kvmhost will be unavailable for a few minutes as the instances are gracefully powered down and the faulty component replaced. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this work.

We will update this status page as soon as the work has been completed.

Update: Work has successfully completed.

19/03/2021

SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 18th March 2021
We're currently investigating isolated reports of 403 Errors (Forbidden Access) occurring on some websites. We're investigating this now and we'll provide another update by 11:10 GMT.

Update 11:10 GMT - We're currently still investigating the intermittent reports of 403 Errors, we'll provide another update by 11:25 GMT.

Update 11:25 GMT - We've identified the caused of the problem and are now looking to resolve this, we'll provide another update by 11:45 GMT.

Update 11:45 GMT - Sites should now be coming back up, you may still be seeing a 403 Error but this should be resolved shortly, we'll continue to provide updates here and will provide another by 12:00 GMT.

Update 12:00 GMT - Sites are being brought back online individually and we'll continue to provide updates here to confirm progress. Our sincere apologies for the storage error that's caused this and any inconvenience caused. We'll provide another update at 12:15 GMT.

Update 12:15 GMT - Sites are still coming back individually, we'll continue to monitor and provide a further update at 12:30 GMT.

Update 12:30 GMT - Sites are continuing to come back individually, we're continuing to monitor but good progress is being made. We'll provide a further update at 12:45 GMT.

Update 12:45 GMT - Affected sites are continuing to come back, we'll provide another update at 13:00 GMT.

Update 13:00 GMT - Sites are continuing to come back online. We'll provide a further update at 13:30 GMT.

Update 13:30 GMT - Further progress has been made and sites are continuing to come back, we'll provide another update again at 14:00 GMT.

Update 14:00 GMT - Faster progress is now being made, of the few sites that were affected almost all are now back. We'll provide a further update at 14:30 GMT.

Update 14:30 GMT - Progress is still underway and more sites are coming back. We'll provide a further update by 16:00 GMT.

Update 16:00 GMT - Most sites are now back, the others are still being done and we'll provide a further update at 17:00 GMT.

Update 17:00 GMT - We're continuing to work on this but most sites are now back, we'll provide a further update at 18:00 GMT.

Update: 18:00 GMT - We're continuing to work on this but most sites are now back, we'll provide a further update at 19:00 GMT.

Update: 19:00 GMT - We are continuing to monitor this. We'll provide a further update when all sites are back.

Resolved: This morning a partial filesystem error occurred which effected some sites on partition 4b. The small number of sites that were affected were identified and brought back up individually. Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused.

07/01/2021

SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Telephone support is off-line until midday today 7/1/21. We apologise for the interruption to this service.

06/01/2021

CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS EXPLAINED

How a CDN works

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is all about making a website load faster for all users, wherever they are in the world.

This is done by storing (caching) copies of your website on servers at the network edge. For example, if your website is hosted at a UK data centre, there might be a delay if you try to access that site from the USA. So a copy of your website is stored on a server closer to the user, called a Point of Presence (POP).

Multiple copies of your site’s data is stored at different POPs throughout the world, so your site will load faster in remote places. Your users will navigate your site more efficiently, wherever they are.

While it’s good for users, it also helps your website in other ways. Search engines love fast-loading sites so there’s an SEO benefit to having a CDN.

The price of CDN is already included in your Annual Hosting Costs

Your site will have CDN POPs in:-

EUROPE
Amsterdam, Barcelona, Frankfurt, London, Moscow, Nottingham, Paris

NORTH AMERICA
Ashburn, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Seattle

ASIA & OCEANIA
Hong Kong, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo

AFRICA
Johannesburg

SOUTH AMERICA
Sāo Paulo

Our CDN offers the same edge caching features as stand-alone CDNs from providers like Cloudflare. However we also provide a separate SEO control panel connected to the basic CDN offering which will optimise your website in dozens of other ways.

Address

Vimy Ridge, Old Plock Road
Kyle Of Lochalsh
IV408BW

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 4pm
Sunday 9am - 4pm

Telephone

+441599534964

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