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We are scheduling a maintenance window to migrate a core fibre pair, connecting BT Citywest and Equinix DB2, to a new location. This will impact a core circuit between these two locations for the duration. Blacknight maintain several diverse fibre paths into both locations, so no impact is anticipated. This is an at risk notification […]
We are scheduling a maintenance window to migrate a core fibre pair, connecting BT Citywest and Digital Realty DUB2, to a new location. This will impact a core circuit between these two locations for the duration. Blacknight maintain several diverse fibre paths into both locations, so no impact is anticipated. This is an at risk […]
We are scheduling a maintenance window to migrate several Shared Hosting VLANs to a new firewall cluster in Dublin. This will impact the following prefixes: 78.153.214.0/23 78.153.216.0/23 78.153.218.0/23 81.17.254.0/23 Update 2025-04-16: This maintenance has been brought forward and will now take place at the following time: Date: 2025-04-17 04:00 – 2025-04-17 07:00 BST (UTC+1) Data […]
There will be network maintenance affecting our shared hosting,running Plesk and Cpanel. This will be to allow networking to fail over to the backup connections. Affecting: Plesk/Cpanel hosting. Affected IPs: 78.153.209.5 -> 78.153.209.254. Duration 1 hour, Starting: Tuesday 15 April @ 7:30am Impact: Low – Not expecting any downtime, just at risk for the duration.