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Emergency Maintenance – Performance issues with mssql792int.cp.blacknight.com

By Alan Corrigan on 13th April 2018 @ 11:01 am in Shared Hosting, Windows

We are experiencing performance issues with connections to this database server mssql792int.cp.blacknight.com An engineer is currently investigating. Update 16:15: A faulty disk was identified and will require a maintenance window at 10pm tonight to complete. The server will be offline for short periods between 22:00 and 23:59pm

Scheduled reboots of Windows shared hosting

By Alan Corrigan on 7th February 2018 @ 2:57 pm in Shared Hosting, Windows

The following servers will be rebooted tomorrow morning at approximately 7:30am to perform updates: pemwinweb60 pemwinweb63 pemwinweb64 pemwinweb65 pemwinweb66 This is expected to take 15-30 minutes to complete Update 8:03 – Reboots have been completed successfully

Interim Update on the Current Security Situation in Relation to Modern CPUs

By Paul Kelly on 4th January 2018 @ 11:20 am in Cloud VM, Control Panel, Email, Linux, Security, Shared Hosting, Windows

Summary: Earlier this week we were alerted about a vulnerability that could potentially allow a remote attacker to access privileged memory on servers, desktops etc. We have been working with our vendors in relation to this. What is affected: All services are potentially affected. Every Linux and Windows release is currently vulnerable to these attacks. Our […]