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Shared MS SQL database server PEMMSSQL02 will be upgraded tomorrow in preparation for our control panel upgrade later this week. We expect the server to be unavailable for approximately 1-2 hours. Aliases for this server: – mssql476.cp.blacknight.com – mssql476int.cp.blacknight.com
The host for pemlinng017 through pemlinng020 inclusive, will be taken offline at approx 7am for scheduled maintenance. This maintenance is expected to take approx 15-30 minutes. All web and FTP services for these four pemlinng nodes will be offline during this time. Update 7:38AM – This maintenance has completed successfully and all services are back […]
Shared MS SQL database server PEMMSSQL01 is having issues this morning and is being migrated as a result. We expect the server to be unavailable for approximately 1 hour. Aliases for this server: – mssql43.cp.blacknight.com – mssql43int.cp.blacknight.com UPDATE @ 07:30: Still in maintenance, windows updates has delayed the migration a little. Databases should be accessible […]
Summary: At 14:58 today a significant DDoS targeting one of our shared hosting servers began. Thus far it has reached 12.6Gbit/s and has saturated a couple of our links while others remain within tolerance. As a result we’re removing the /19 that holds the destination IP address from our peering at the above named locations […]