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We are scheduling a maintenance window tonight to upgrade software on several top of rack switches used for our legacy shared hosting platform. Customers may experience a brief outages as the switches restart. Date: 2026-05-22 00:01 – 02:00 IST (UTC+1) Data Centre: Equinix DB1 Impact: Shared Hosting
Control Panel (cp.blacknighthosting.com) is currently offline and engineers are investigating. update : 12:36 cp.blacknighthosting.com is back online now.
We are scheduling 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, Tuesday 21.04.2026. this maintenance was originally scheduled for 31/03/26 but was deferred. Impact: Access to control panel functions in the client area will be unavailable during the window but services will […]
We need to perform some minor but essential maintenance on some critical infrastructure related to domain registrations and management. The maintenance will only take a few minutes, but during that time customers will be unable to make changes to their existing domains or register any new ones. Functionality of existing domains will not be affected. […]