This is the Blacknight hosting and domain name registration offsite maintenance / technical blog.
If you are an existing client of Blacknight we recommend you subscribe to the feed to get the latest service updates: 
Subscribe to this blog’s feed or subscribe to the email updates
You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook
Want our latest domain name and website hosting offers? Check here.
We will be rebooting a top of rack switch which will cause brief connectivity issues to our Linux NG shared hosting in Carlow and legacy hosting in the Carlow Data-Centre. All NG websites and NGmysql nodes will be affected for a 5 minute outage whilst the switch reboots. You can check to see if your […]
We will be performing emergency maintenance on cp.blacknight.com and store.blacknight.com for approximately 1 hour on Wednesday the 9th of November starting at 3am. It will not be possible to place any orders or access the https://cp.blacknight.com control panel during this maintenance. The maintenance should be completed by 4am (GMT)
We are starting upgrade maintenance on our Shared MS SQL servers tonight (07 Nov 2016) at 23:00. The first server being upgraded is mssql43.cp.blacknight.com (a.k.a. mssql43int.cp.blacknight.com). The MS SQL service will be unavailable on this server for 1-2 hours. Over the coming days we will be upgrading more Shared MS SQL servers. So please keep […]
Blacknight are members of five European Internet Exchanges, including INEX in Dublin. INEX carries a significant percentage of traffic between ISPs in Ireland. Due to the continued increase of peering, INEX needs to increase the number of IPv4 addresses available on the primary peering LAN. To accomplish this, all peering members will be required to […]