We have scheduled the migration of all customers off of our Snape server and will be shutting down the server on Sunday, June 30, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Customers using 3rd party DNS services to point their domains to our servers have been notified by email with instructions on how to point their domains to their new server IP. This action must be completed by Saturday, June 29, 2024 at the latest to prevent any service interruptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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