Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
Summary: On Wednesday 11th between 03:00 and 09:00 approx we installed a major update on our CP. We ran over our maintenance window and we were unable to install a number of hotfixes. Our intention is to install them tonight / tomorrow morning in the timeframe of 05:00 – 07:00 Thursday 12th. Unlike the main […]
Summary: Our backend platform is being upgraded from v7.2 to v7.3 which brings some performance improvements. Most will not be noticable to our end users. However this is a precursor to v7.4 which brings GDPR updates which will be installed in May once it’s available. What is affected: The ability to single sign on into […]
Summary: Earlier this week we were alerted about a vulnerability that could potentially allow a remote attacker to access privileged memory on servers, desktops etc. We have been working with our vendors in relation to this. What is affected: All services are potentially affected. Every Linux and Windows release is currently vulnerable to these attacks. Our […]
Summary: At 14:58 today a significant DDoS targeting one of our shared hosting servers began. Thus far it has reached 12.6Gbit/s and has saturated a couple of our links while others remain within tolerance. As a result we’re removing the /19 that holds the destination IP address from our peering at the above named locations […]