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Update 11:25: This has now been resolved. We are investigating an issue when sending email on shared, returning an error: wrong response from throttling daemon This is being investigated by our engineers and an update will follow shortly.
Our engineers are investigating an issue on our Hosted Exchange platform which is causing performance issues and resulting in some users seeing delays in sending and receiving mail and also searching mailboxes. We will update this post as soon as we have more information. UPDATE 15/05 @ 09:30: We have deployed additional resources to our […]
Over the next 5 weeks we will be upgrading our Mysql nodes to newer hardware and an updated Operating system. We plan to migrate two nodes every morning between 07:00 and 08:00 AM and downtime per node is expected to be 20-30 minutes appx. We have thoroughly tested the process and have migrated a number […]
The following servers will be taken offline on Monday 15th of April starting at 08:00AM to facilitate migration to newer hardware. pemmysql11-5.blacknight.com mysql560.cp.blacknight.com /mysql560int.cp.blacknight.com pemmysql10-5.blacknight.com mysql559.cp.blacknight.com /mysql559int.cp.blacknight.com Approximate downtime per MySql Node is 20-30 minutes. update : 15.4.2019 08:58 the maintenance has completed and services are back online