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Please note that due to a staff event taking place on Friday afternoon 29th May 2026, our phone lines will close earlier than usual at 1:00pm. As a result, response times may be slightly longer than normal for the remainder of the day. We appreciate your patience and understanding, and we’ll respond to all enquiries […]
We are scheduling a maintenance window tonight to upgrade software on several top of rack switches used for our legacy shared hosting platform. Customers may experience a brief outages as the switches restart. Date: 2026-05-22 00:01 – 02:00 IST (UTC+1) Data Centre: Equinix DB1 Impact: Shared Hosting
Control Panel (cp.blacknighthosting.com) is currently offline and engineers are investigating. update : 12:36 cp.blacknighthosting.com is back online now.
We are scheduling maintenance for our new control panel (cp.blacknighthosting.com) to apply critical software updates. This will happen between 12:30 and 1:30 tomorrow afternoon, Tuesday 21.04.2026. this maintenance was originally scheduled for 31/03/26 but was deferred. Impact: Access to control panel functions in the client area will be unavailable during the window but services will […]