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We are scheduling a maintenance window to migrate an ODF in Interxion to a new rack. This is to facilitate a capacity upgrade on our core network. The maintenance will impact a number of circuits for a short period. Customers may experience brief periods of packet loss and increased latency during this maintenance window as the […]
We are experiencing an issue with a hypervisor, affecting the following webservers: pemdublinng041 pemdublinng042 pemdublinng043 pemdublinng044 An engineer is currently investigating Update 8:48: All vms are now back online.
We are experiencing performance issues with connections to this database server mssql792int.cp.blacknight.com An engineer is currently investigating. Update 16:15: A faulty disk was identified and will require a maintenance window at 10pm tonight to complete. The server will be offline for short periods between 22:00 and 23:59pm
Summary: On Wednesday 11th between 03:00 and 09:00 approx we installed a major update on our CP. We ran over our maintenance window and we were unable to install a number of hotfixes. Our intention is to install them tonight / tomorrow morning in the timeframe of 05:00 – 07:00 Thursday 12th. Unlike the main […]