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We are scheduling a maintenance window to install two core switches in BT Citywest. This maintenance window will impact connectivity to the following services: Shared Hosting Cloud Control Panels Customers may experience a brief period of packet loss and increased latency during this maintenance window as the network re-converges. Date: 2025-04-24 23:00 – 2025-04-25 03:00 […]
This post is to note the deprecation of TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 on our legacy shared hosting platform (pemlinng / pemdublinng servers). TLS 1.0 and 1.1 have been considered deprecated for some time, however have been left in place to allow for legacy services. They were removed on a subset of servers approx […]
Summary: At 18:51 Irish time we began seeing alerts from some sections of our network in Suite 1, BK3. While customer traffic is flowing the command and control aspects of the management system, the UI within our control panel etc is unavailable. It appears to be a switch related issue. Engineers are working on the […]
We are scheduling a maintenance window to replace a firewall cluster, which will impact a number of services including: cp.blacknight.com cp.blacknighthosting.com Date: 2025-04-18 06:00 – 2025-04-18 07:00 BST (UTC+1) Impact: Outage