Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
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 […]
Summary: On December 9th a vulnerability in the java logging package log4j 2.x was announced. This is widely used in enterprise software across the globe. Upon learning of the security issue Blacknight began investigating what versions of this software was being run across our platforms and customer infrastructure. Our findings are as follows: Plesk: latest […]
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 tonight Tuesday 24th of August between 22:00 and 23:00
Summary: On Thursday 24/6 between 10:00am and 12pm our DNS Manager will undergo essential works. It will not be accessible to customers for the duration of the upgrade. What: In order to facilitate the move of DNS manager between servers, operating systems and updated php versions we need to take it down for a 2 […]