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We are scheduling reboots of Microsoft SQL servers at 07:00 AM over three consecutive days in order to install security updates. This will affect windows based websites on shared hosting, and the outage is expected to last 5 – 10 minutes approximately. 04/06/2020 Pemmssql01 /Pemmssql02 05/06/2020 Pemmsql03/ Pemmssql04 08/06/2020 Pemmssql05 /Pemmssql06  

We are experiencing issues with a windows shared hosting node which has rebooted after a windows update – Our engineers are investigating and we will update this when we know more. To check if your site is hosted on this node , please use the following link. https://check.blacknight.tech/ Update 12:20  The issue appears to be […]

We will be performing some essential maintenance from 06:00 A.M Wednesday 13.05.2020 on a portion of the network which will impact shared hosting services only. We will be migrating services from shared hosting VLANs , which will cause a brief outage whilst the network re-converges. Shared hosting websites and access to shared hosting databases will […]

We will be performing a business continuity exercise next  Friday, where all Blacknight staff will be working from home. We have performed this exercise previously during extreme weather conditions and services continued as normal then, so we expect no significant disruption to our business. Our service , sales and accounts teams can be contacted as […]