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Please be advised that the Network Freeze for the Christmas and New Year period 2021/2022 will commence at 17:00 on Friday December 17th 2021 and continue until at 8:00am Tuesday January 4th 2022, with a cooldown period commencing close of business Friday 10th December. During the cooldown we will endeavour to fulfil any outstanding orders, […]
We are in the process of applying some critical security patches to our Hosted Exchange servers. As part of that process we are removing some nodes from the loadbalancers so that services continue to operate, however some users may experience intermittent connectivity issues whilst this is being worked on. Please bear with us, and services […]
We are scheduling a maintenance window to allow for the upgrade of the UPS in the Carlow Data Centre on Tuesday 28/09/2021 from 09:00 to 19:00. The new UPS is replacing a standby UPS which was installed as a temporary replacement back in June when a fault occurred in the original unit. In order to […]
Summary: A backend storage service needs to be restarted urgently and this can’t be done online, it requires that we shutdown the email services for mail.blacknight.com for up to 60 minutes. When: This work will take place tonight Tuesday 24th of August between 22:00 and 23:00