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. […]
Since we started offering hosting and other services to our clients we’ve always taken pride in reinvesting in our technical infrastructure and services. Over the past few years we’ve expanded our network and made it more resilient, while also investing in becoming ISO certified. DNS is something that most of our clients rely on. It’s […]
We will be performing essential updates to our nameservers tonight, Friday 30th of September at 22:00. This will affect ns1.blacknight.com and ns2.blacknight.com. Both nameservers will be updated individually which will minimise any impact. Estimated downtime for services is only a few minutes each, however this maintenance window covers the period of 22:00 to 23:00 to […]
We are scheduling a maintenance window to perform a software upgrade on ns2.blacknight.com. The maintenance will cause an outage of approximately 60 seconds as bind restarts. Date: 2016-09-19 23:00 – 2016-09-20 01:00 IST Data Centre: BT Citywest Impact: One outage of approximately 60 seconds