Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
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 […]
Blacknight are members of five European Internet Exchanges, including INEX in Dublin. INEX carries a significant percentage of traffic between ISPs in Ireland. Due to the continued increase of peering, INEX needs to increase the number of IPv4 addresses available on the primary peering LAN. To accomplish this, all peering members will be required to […]
We are scheduling a maintenance window to inspect a core link between BT Citywest and Equinix DB2. Traffic will be migrated to alternate links during this maintenance window. While no customer impact is anticipated, services in BT Citywest should be considered at risk during this maintenance window. Date: 2016-10-13 10:00 – 2016-10-13 16:00 UTC Data Centre: BT Citywest Impact: […]
We will be performing a non-service affecting emergency maintenance on one of the DR switches in our Carlow Data Centre. This requires a reboot of the switch which should take less than 2 minutes. Traffic will be carried on an alternate route so services will not be affected but can be considered at-risk for the […]