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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 […]

Summary: Plesk003 shared hosting server is offline this morning, Engineers are working to resolve the issue and are also restoring a backup from last night to an alternative node in case it may be needed. There is no current ETA but Engineers are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and further updates […]

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. […]