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We are scheduling a software upgrade of our Cloud-1 storage platform to Version 9.1 , in conjunction with the vendor SolidFire which will address some mandatory bug fixes.Version 9.1 is a cumulative update that rolls in fixes from previous Element OS versions. Works will start at Sun 12th March at 22:00 , duration 4 hours. […]
We are scheduling six maintenance windows to upgrade the version of IOS-XR on our edge routers in Dublin. To facilitate this, we will need to temporarily shut down certain peering and transit sessions. Customers may experience brief periods of packet loss and increased latency during each maintenance window as the network re-converges. Services in the relevant data centre should be […]
Summary: The following list of shared hosting servers will be shutdown tonight in order to install upgraded hardware. This will take approx 45 minutes from 21:30 until 22:15. Update: 21:55: This maintenance window is now closed and the upgrade was successful. Servers Affected: pemlinng033.blacknight.com: 78.153.220.8 78.153.220.16 78.153.220.18 78.153.220.26 78.153.220.31 78.153.220.32 78.153.220.40 78.153.220.41 78.153.220.44 78.153.220.45 78.153.220.52 […]
Summary: In order to facilitate a patch on our storage system and to implement some changes to the configuration that require a reboot we need to take shared hosting email down for between 1 hour and 1.5 hours on Friday 17th starting at 22:00. What is affected: smtp/pop/imap services for all shared hosting accounts hosted […]