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There are a number of devices alerting for temperature thresholds in the BT data centre suites. On site facilities engineers have informed us that there is a power issue with the cooling system which they now appear to have partially rectified. We are seeing temperatures dropping to normal levels and no devices appear to have […]
Summary: Storm Dudley is expected to hit Ireland and Met Éireann have issued a yellow wind warning for most of the country. While this shouldn’t have much effect on our overall operations from a data centre point of view, it could affect engagement with our customer service teams whom are dotted around the country working […]
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 tomorrow morning 26/01/2022 between 02:00 and 03:00
Summary: Since 9am approximately on 22/12 Weare.ie (The Irish domain registry/IEDR) have been having issues with their registry backend. We are unable to submit new domain registrations or domain transfers as a result. They aren’t able to give us an ETA as of yet. But they have informed us that they’ve engaged their software vendor […]