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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 […]
The following servers will be taken offline on Friday 17th of Feb starting at 10:00pm to facilitate migration to newer hardware. pemmysql07-5 pemmysql20-5 pemmysql21-5 pemmysql51-5 pemmysql52-5 Approximate downtime per server is 20-30 minutes.
Summary: The .irish gTLD was acquired late in 2016 and is moving to a new backend provider on the 1st of March. However it appears that the nameservers for the tld have been changed prematurely. The resulting knock on effect is that all domains that end in .irish do not resolve at the moment. […]