Kinetic Hosting incident

Emergency Maintenance - Critical PHP Security Release

Major

Resolved after 6 hours 55 minutes, affecting Billing Panel and Game Panel, on October 21, 2026.

identified Oct 21, 2026, 11:14 AM UTC

Yesterday, the PHP development team announced two critical security vulnerabilities affecting PHP, one of the world's most widely used web programming languages. Security patches are expected to be released today, **21 October 2026, at 2:00 PM UTC (3:00 PM UK time).** As several of Kinetic Hosting's core systems rely on PHP, we've been monitoring this situation very closely. Initially, we had hoped to keep our services online until the security patches became available. However, as we've got closer to the scheduled release, more information about these vulnerabilities and how they could potentially be exploited has started circulating publicly. With this in mind, we've made the decision to **temporarily take our PHP-based services offline, effective immediately.** You can read more here:

Started
Oct 21, 2026, 11:14 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 21, 2026, 06:10 PM UTC
Duration
6h 55m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 21, 2026, 11:14 AM UTC

Affected components

Billing PanelGame Panel

Update timeline

  1. identified Oct 21, 2026, 11:14 AM UTC

    Yesterday, the PHP development team announced two critical security vulnerabilities affecting PHP, one of the world's most widely used web programming languages. Security patches are expected to be released today, **21 October 2026, at 2:00 PM UTC (3:00 PM UK time).** As several of Kinetic Hosting's core systems rely on PHP, we've been monitoring this situation very closely. Initially, we had hoped to keep our services online until the security patches became available. However, as we've got closer to the scheduled release, more information about these vulnerabilities and how they could potentially be exploited has started circulating publicly. With this in mind, we've made the decision to **temporarily take our PHP-based services offline, effective immediately.** You can read more here:

  2. resolved Oct 21, 2026, 06:10 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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