Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
We are scheduling a maintenance window tonight to migrate a number of services in Digital Realty Cloud House to an alternate line card. This work is part of a 400G capacity upgrade between Dublin and London. This work will impact connectivity to Arelion in London for the duration. Connectivity to Arelion will be rerouted to […]
We are scheduling a maintenance window to replace a core router tonight in Equinix DB1. This is an at risk notification only. Date: 2026-01-12 23:30 – 2026-01-13 04:00 UTC Data Centre: Equinix DB1 Impact: Reduced Capacity – At risk only
We are scheduling a maintenance window to upgrade the software on an edge router in Digital Realty Cloud House. This will impact connectivity to several IXPs for the duration. Date: 2025-12-10 23:30 – 05:00 UTC Data Centre: Digital Realty Cloud House, London Router: ec-r01.bk7 Impact: LINX LON1, LONAP Update: This maintenance is complete
We are scheduling a maintenance window to upgrade the software on an edge router in Nikhef. This will impact connectivity to several IXPs for the duration. Date: 2025-12-04 00:30 – 05:00 CET (UTC+1) Data Centre: Nikhef, Amsterdam Router: ec-r01.bk9 Impact: AMS-IX / ERA-IX / Frys-IX / Speed-IX Update: 2025-12-04 03:00 CET – This maintenance is […]