Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
Summary: A problem was noticed with the Plesk control panel related to a mariadb package. The package in question was updated which appears to have caused further updates. Both machines are being rolled back to their last snapshots (approx 3am) and will be back online around 09:30 this morning. We’re keeping the original disks for […]
Summary: Storm Dudley is expected to hit Ireland and Met Éireann have issued a yellow wind warning for most of the country. While this shouldn’t have much effect on our overall operations from a data centre point of view, it could affect engagement with our customer service teams whom are dotted around the country working […]
Summary: A backend storage service needs to be restarted urgently and this can’t be done online, it requires that we shutdown the email services for mail.blacknight.com for up to 60 minutes. When: This work will take place tomorrow morning 26/01/2022 between 02:00 and 03:00
Summary: Since 9am approximately on 22/12 Weare.ie (The Irish domain registry/IEDR) have been having issues with their registry backend. We are unable to submit new domain registrations or domain transfers as a result. They aren’t able to give us an ETA as of yet. But they have informed us that they’ve engaged their software vendor […]