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We will be taking the servers pemlinng017, pemlinng018, pemlinng019 and pemlinng020 offline tomorrow morning at 8am to perform hardware upgrades. Downtime is expected to last approx 30-60 minutes. The following IPs are affected: 78.153.213.4 78.153.213.5 78.153.213.6 78.153.213.7
Latest Update 11:55 Thursday 26th January: All shared email services are online and active since 3am and service has been stable, we continue to monitor the platform. We will post further updates if needed. We are currently investigating some performance issues on our QMail service which is resulting in slower than usual mail delivery and […]
We will be applying some patches /hotfixes to our control panel server CP.blacknight.com on Wednesday morning starting at 03:00. The maintenance is expected to last 2 hours and the control panel will be offline intermittently during the maintenance window. This should not affect normal shared hosting services.
We need to perform emergency maintenance on a Hosted Exchange Mailbox Database which may impact performance for some customers. We expect this to be completed by 18:00 today Friday. We apologies in advance for any inconvenience caused.