Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
We are scheduling two maintenance windows to upgrade routers in Nikhef, Amsterdam. This will impact connectivity to several IXPs for the duration. Date: 2026-10-26 00:01 – 06:00 CET (UTC+1) Data Centre: Nikhef, Amsterdam Impact: Arelion, Cogent, ERA-IX Date: 2026-10-27 00:01 – 06:00 CET (UTC+1) Data Centre: Nikhef, Amsterdam Impact: AMS-IX, Frys-IX, Speed-IX, Access Network
We will be upgrading the shared firewalls protecting your dedicated IP ranges. This is a direct replacement. During the upgrade, we will briefly disable the existing ports before enabling them on the new firewalls. A 10-minute maintenance window has been scheduled to allow ARP entries to expire, although we expect the work to be completed […]
We are scheduling a maintenance window to replace a line card in an edge router located in Digital Realty DUB2. This will impact connectivity to INEX LAN2 for the duration. Date: 2026-05-30 06:00 – 09:00 IST (UTC+1) Data Centre: Digital Realty DUB2 Impact: INEX LAN2
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 […]