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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 […]
We are scheduling a maintenance window to upgrade switches in the BT Citywest data centre. Customers with servers in the following ranges should expect several minutes downtime during this maintenance window. Date: 2025-03-19 23:00 – 2025-03-20 06:00 GMT/UTC Prefixes: 78.153.200.0/23 81.17.244.0/26
Over the course of the next four weeks, the shared hosting servers responsible for the Mega, Giga, Tera and WordPress hosting plans will being migrated to new hardware. This work will take place overnight, and will typically last 1-2 hours per server. Work is expected to typically be started after midnight and completed by 8am […]