Blacknight Hosting Network Status
Service announcements and related posts from the Blacknight technical team
We are scheduling a maintenance window tonight to upgrade software on several top of rack switches used for our legacy shared hosting platform. Customers may experience a brief outages as the switches restart. Date: 2026-05-22 00:01 – 02:00 IST (UTC+1) Data Centre: Equinix DB1 Impact: Shared Hosting
We are experiencing issues on one of our legacy shared hosting hypervisors which is affecting two shared hosting nodes (pemdublinng037 & pemdublinng040). The nodes will be offline until we restore them to another hypervisor. All sites on these two nodes will be offline until the maintenance is completed. update 11:00 Pemdublinng037 is now online […]
The shared database server, mysql3333.cp.blacknight.com – will be taken offline at approx 7pm for emergency maintenance. This will affect all databases using the following hostnames or IP addresses: mysql3333int.cp.blacknight.com (172.17.0.161) mysql3333.cp.blacknight.com (185.2.65.145) Maintenance is expected to last 1.5 to 2 hours.
Over the course of the next month, the shared hosting servers responsible for the Minimus, Medius and Maximus 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 9am at the […]