Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
We will be performing preventative maintenance on the MV Switchgear, Transformer and main incoming circuit breaker on Thursday 15th September on our Carlow site. The Carlow data centre will be operating on UPS/ generator power during this maintenance which is expected to last five hours. No impact to customer services is expected, however services should […]
We have recently installed an additional fuel tank to extend the run time of our generators with the growing risk of power concerns over the coming months. We will be carrying out a full test of this functionality between Thursday 1st September and Friday 2nd September , during which the data centre will be operating […]
At approximately 15:20 BST we observed disruption on our network to routes in the UK / Europe. One of our backhaul providers was undergoing emergency maintenance at the time, however this should not have been service affecting as it was a backup circuit. As the maintenance began, we noticed errors on the backup link with […]
There are a number of devices alerting for temperature thresholds in the BT data centre suites. On site facilities engineers have informed us that there is a power issue with the cooling system which they now appear to have partially rectified. We are seeing temperatures dropping to normal levels and no devices appear to have […]