Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
Summary: The .irish gTLD was acquired late in 2016 and is moving to a new backend provider on the 1st of March. However it appears that the nameservers for the tld have been changed prematurely. The resulting knock on effect is that all domains that end in .irish do not resolve at the moment. […]
The following servers will be taken offline on Wednesday 1st Feb starting at 11:00pm to facilitate migration to newer hardware. The order of these going offline is as follows: pemlinweb04 pemlinweb31 pemlinweb32 pemlinweb33 pemlinweb35 pemlinweb38 Approximate downtime per server is 20-30 minutes.
In line with standard industry best practice, we will be implementing a change freeze over the Christmas Holiday period again this year. What is a change freeze? Engineering changes to our core network, shared hosting infrastructure and dedicated-server infrastructure will be suspended for the duration of the freeze. Change freezes are normal practice within the […]
The server hosting our control panel cp.blacknight.com will be unavailable for approximately 20 minutes on Friday the 25th of November starting at 7:00AM to facilitate replacement of a faulty memory module.