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We are scheduling a maintenance window to migrate a core fibre pair, connecting BT Citywest and Digital Realty DUB2, to a new location. This will impact a core circuit between these two locations for the duration. Blacknight maintain several diverse fibre paths into both locations, so no impact is anticipated. This is an at risk […]
We will be performing emergency maintenance tonight 25.03.2025 at 21:00 , on our domain registration platform. There will be a brief outage whilst the node is rebooted and services impacted are as follows domain availability checks domain registrations domain updates and renewals the whois /RDAP services will be offline for the duration The expected outage […]
The maintenance window should last about 30 minutes impact : NS services will not be impacted , but customers will be unable to make changes during the maintenance window. we will update this post once the maintenance is complete. 12:15 – The maintenance is complete
We are scheduling emergency maintenance for our new control panel (cp.blacknighthosting.com) to apply critical software updates. This will happen between 12:30 and 1:30 tomorrow afternoon Thursday 06-03-2025. Impact: Access to control panel functions in the client area will be unavailable during the window but services will continue to operate as normal. Customers will be unable […]