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We’re currently experiencing an issue with our Qmail shared email hosting service, affecting mail.blacknight.com. Engineers are actively investigating. Update: 01:10: Mail services are back online. The NFS server crashed around 22:35~ which meant the storage for the mail servers stopped working. This meant we stopped being able to accept new email (which was queued and […]
NBI have scheduled a software upgrade to ONT devices for their fiber to the home (FTTH) customers nationwide. The maintenance is scheduled to begin 07/03/2023 00:00 – end 07/03/2023 06:00. The impact is expected to be minimal with an outage of approximately 3-4 minutes as each device reboots.
We will be conducting emergency maintenance on our mail relay system on Friday morning at 8am. During this time, the mail relay system will be unavailable for approximately 30-60 minutes. Any mail sent during this time will be queued and will be delivered as expected once the maintenance is complete. Maintenance now completed.
Blacknight will be carrying out essential maintenance on our domain registration platform between 12:00 – 14:00 Irish time, on Wednesday 14th December 2022. This will impact the purchasing or updates of domains for a short period. The outage is expected to be no more than 20 minutes, but we are allowing a window of 2 […]