Blacknight will implement a Network Operations Freeze for the Christmas and New Year period 2024/2025 commencing 17:00 on Friday December 13th 2024 until at 8:00 am Thursday, January 2nd, 2025, with a cooldown period commencing close of business Friday 6th December. During the Network Operations Freeze only emergency maintenance will be permitted on the Blacknight […]
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Scheduled maintenance of cp.blacknighthosting.com 21:00 Thursday 01 August
We will be performing scheduled maintenance on our new platform to upgrade the DNS manager component. Impact: cp.blacknighthosting.com will be unavailable for approximately one hour during the maintenance. Services running on the platform will remain online , however no changes can be made during this window. When: Thursday 21:00 01/08/2024
Scheduled maintenance on cp.blacknight.com 14/05/2024 22:00
We will be performing scheduled maintenance on part of our older platform (cp.blacknight.com) which will result in a brief outage of about 5 minutes. The automation element which handles provisioning and customer changes (e.g. DNS changes) will be temporarily shut down in order to move it to newer hardware. The maintenance will take place on […]
Cloud2 VMs requiring a reboot
Due to standard maintenance on a storage cluster node this morning at around 09:30, we’ve received reports of issues on some cloud2.blacknight.ie VMs. The maintenance should not have been service impacting as the storage cluster is fully redundant and we are investigating the cause at present whilst rebooting any VMs which have been affected. We […]