Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
We are scheduling a maintenance window to migrate several Shared Hosting VLANs to a new firewall cluster in Dublin. This will impact the following prefixes: 78.153.214.0/23 78.153.216.0/23 78.153.218.0/23 81.17.254.0/23 Date: 2025-04-21 23:00 – 2025-04-22 02:00 BST (UTC+1) Data Centre: BT Citywest Impact: Outage
There will be network maintenance affecting our shared hosting,running Plesk and Cpanel. This will be to allow networking to fail over to the backup connections. Affecting: Plesk/Cpanel hosting. Affected IPs: 78.153.209.5 -> 78.153.209.254. Duration 1 hour, Starting: Tuesday 15 April @ 7:30am Impact: Low – Not expecting any downtime, just at risk for the duration.
Over the course of the next four weeks, the shared hosting servers responsible for the Mega, Giga, Tera and WordPress hosting plans will being migrated to new hardware. This work will take place overnight, and will typically last 1-2 hours per server. Work is expected to typically be started after midnight and completed by 8am […]
Our older billing system on cp.blacknight.com is experiencing issues at present and engineers are investigating. Most services have been migrated to the current platform so this should only impact legacy shared hosting renewals or new orders until resolved. We will update this post with more information when we know more. Update 11:30 All services have […]