Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
SIRO have reported that the outage in the Kildare area is now resolved. (https://twitter.com/SIROIreland/status/1755972976950857773) The issue occurred due to excavation works by another party which required damaged fiber cables to be re-spliced this afternoon. We did not receive any notification of this maintenance work due to human error, however we have confirmed with the NOC […]
We will be performing a scheduled upgrade of our Cloud storage platform with our partners NetApp, starting at 06:00 February 14th. NetApp have advised a maintenance window of 6 hours to allow for the consecutive upgrades of each individual node. The maintenance should be NON-service impacting however there may be a slight performance hit on […]
We will be performing maintenance on one of the WordPress CPanel nodes this evening 03/01/2024 at 22:00 to add additional storage. The node will be offline for approximately 10 minutes and will briefly impact any WordPress websites on the node (wpcpanel006). Update : the maintenance was deferred until tonight (04/01/2024) at 22:00
Blacknight will implement a Network Operations Freeze for the Christmas and New Year period 2023/2024 commencing 17:00 on Friday December 15th 2023 until 8:00 am Tuesday January 2nd 2024, with a cooldown period commencing close of business Friday 08th December. During the Network Operations Freeze only emergency maintenance will be permitted on the Blacknight network. […]