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We will be performing essential software patches to our Qmail storage platform tomorrow (Saturday 10/12/2016 23:00) in conjunction with our storage partners. This will require a reboot of the storage nodes to allow the patch to be applied and will result in the mailboxes being unavailable for the duration. Inbound email will be queued and […]
In line with standard industry best practice, we will be implementing a change freeze over the Christmas Holiday period again this year. What is a change freeze? Engineering changes to our core network, shared hosting infrastructure and dedicated-server infrastructure will be suspended for the duration of the freeze. Change freezes are normal practice within the […]
We will be performing scheduled maintenance at approx 6am, Friday 9th Dec. Work is expected to last no more than one hour. During this time, our website www.blacknight.com will be inaccessible. Additionally webmail.blacknight.com and altmail.blacknight.com will be unavailable. During this outage our Open-Xchange webmail, direct pop and imap services will be unaffected. Hosted Exchange and […]
One of our shared web servers – pemlinng016; will be brought offline for scheduled maintenance tonight, Wednesday the 7th at 22:00. Approximate downtime of 10 – 20 minutes is expected. This will affect all websites using the following IPs: 185.2.67.20 185.2.67.128 185.2.67.171 185.2.67.220 185.2.67.53 185.2.67.225 185.2.67.226 185.2.67.177 185.2.67.181 185.2.67.170 185.2.67.197 185.2.67.150 185.2.67.213 185.2.67.219 185.2.67.182 Updated […]