We are seeing a networking issue affecting traffic to parts of our network this morning. Websites and services on some servers may be unreachable at the moment, including the below: Some of our Windows shared hosting plans Our legacy Direct Admin reseller server – cador.blacknight.ie We will update this post as soon as we have […]
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Emergency Maintenance – Performance issues with mssql792int.cp.blacknight.com
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
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
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 […]