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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
Summary: On Saturday 26th at 10:08 one of mail servers started experiencing issues with sending emails – bouncing them. Issue was resolved on Sunday 27th at 23:32. We’re keeping an eye on the server to fix issues with mail flow.