Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
Summary: Today at around 16:10 the NFS traffic destined for our mail storage system dropped complete from it’s usual 1000Mbit/s to less than 50Mbit/s – at this point our mail servers began queuing NFS reads/writes and we started seeing a backlog in logins, email sending etc. Thus resulting in very slow performance and eventually the […]
We will be making some changes to the load balancer in front of our Hosted Exchange platform tonight at approximately 11pm. The maintenance is expected to take no longer than 15 minutes. During that time we expect minimal disruption to Hosted Exchange services but it’s possible that connectivity to some services may be disrupted for […]
We are currently experiencing a network-related issue in our Carlow data centre. All services and servers hosted in this data centre may experience intermittant connectivity issues. We will update this post as soon as we have more information. Update : 13:00 – The network has stabilised – we are still investigating the root cause […]
We are seeing issues with Microsoft Office 365 which appear to be affecting parts of Europe , UK and Ireland. We are investigating and will post any more information once it becomes available to us. Update : 11:30 – This appears to be a global outage for Microsoft however they have not released any […]