Summary: The AnyCast dns provider that we’ve been using for the last few years was acquired last year and the new company decided to end of life the service. With that in mind we’ve been working on replacing them for some time and we’re finally ready to make the switch. What: We have synchronised all […]
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Preparing to Migrate to cp.blacknighthosting.com
As part of our migration to the new hosting control panel platform you may see some changes in your existing cp.blacknight.com account. The migration will be done on a phased basis. We’ll begin performing the initial migrations of services in late May. This will be done by customer silos. e.g. all customers with only Domain […]
wpcpanel001.blacknighthosting.com data corruption issue [resolved]
Summary: Additional cores were added to this node due to high load around 14:04 today Friday the 7th of April. Approx 90 minutes after the reboot we began getting calls about missing blog posts and other similar issues. What Happened: Upon investigation it appears that the live image had somehow rolled back to March 8th […]
Anycast DNS outage
Summary: We started seeing sporadic responses from our AnyCast DNS servers last night. We contacted AfiliasDNS who operate that service for us. As of yet we haven’t had a reply or a resolution from them that gives us any insight as to what the problem is. What impact is there on customers: Typically, none. But […]