Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
A single node on cloud1.blacknight.ie has unexpectedly rebooted at 17;10 causing some of the VMs hosted on it to shut down. Engineers are currently bringing those services online and they will be back shortly. This has only impacted a small number of VMs on the overall cloud infrastructure. Update : 17:51 all services (VMs) […]
Cloud 1 network maintenance window as hypervisor uplinks are connected to new switches. All cabling has redundant paths so disruption should be minimal but all vm connectivity is at risk for the duration of this window. Starting: 27th May 23:00 Finishing: 28th May 03:00
Summary: At 18:51 Irish time we began seeing alerts from some sections of our network in Suite 1, BK3. While customer traffic is flowing the command and control aspects of the management system, the UI within our control panel etc is unavailable. It appears to be a switch related issue. Engineers are working on the […]
We are scheduling two maintenance windows to upgrade the software on rack switches attached to our Cloud platform in BT Citywest. The switches are configured in HA, so these are at risk maintenance windows only. Date: 2025-04-16 06:00 – 07:00 IST (UTC+1) Data Centre: BT Citywest Impact: Reduced Capacity – At risk only Date: 2025-04-17 […]