Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
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 […]
Current Status: Maintenance has completed and systems are being tested. Last updated 17:05 16/11/17 Summary: Blacknight will disable its online stores, as well as its user administration control panels (cp.blacknight.com), including billing administration services, for 24 hours on Wednesday 15 November 2017 and Thursday 16 November 2017, to facilitate a planned software upgrade. Hosting and other services will continue to operate as normal during this period, but it will not […]
Summary: Tomorrow Tuesday 19/09/2017 we’re installing a software update to our Office 365 provisioning gateway. What: Our control panel vendor has released an updated set of packages for Office 365 for moving off the CREST API to the Partner Centre API. For the duration of this upgrade, the ability to manage users, licences, synchronise your […]