Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
We will be performing a software upgrade on a number of our shared hosting firewalls in Dublin tonight. These firewalls are in high availability clusters and no impact is anticipated. Date: 2017-04-06 22:00 – 2017-04-06 23:59 IST Data Centre: BT Citywest Impact: None Update 2017-04-06 23:17: This maintenance window is now closed.
We are scheduling six maintenance windows to upgrade the version of IOS-XR on our edge routers in Dublin. To facilitate this, we will need to temporarily shut down certain peering and transit sessions. Customers may experience brief periods of packet loss and increased latency during each maintenance window as the network re-converges. Services in the relevant data centre should be […]
We are scheduling two maintenance windows to upgrade the version of IOS-XR on our edge routers in Interxion DUB1. To facilitate this, we will need to temporarily shut down certain peering and transit sessions. While no customer impact is anticipated, services in Interxion DUB1 should be considered at risk during these maintenance windows. Date: 2017-01-05 23:00 – 2017-01-06 04:00 UTC Data […]
In line with standard industry best practice, we will be implementing a change freeze over the Christmas Holiday period again this year. What is a change freeze? Engineering changes to our core network, shared hosting infrastructure and dedicated-server infrastructure will be suspended for the duration of the freeze. Change freezes are normal practice within the […]