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Summary: Additional cores were added to this node due to high load around 14:04 today Friday the 7th of April. Approx 90 minutes after the reboot we began getting calls about missing blog posts and other similar issues. What Happened: Upon investigation it appears that the live image had somehow rolled back to March 8th […]
We will be performing updates on cp.blacknighthosting.com, which will result in a short outage on the control panel access. Hosting services will not be affected, however the control panel will be inaccessible for approx. 15 minutes. This maintenance has been moved to Wednesday 12.04.2023, at 19:00.
Summary: We started seeing sporadic responses from our AnyCast DNS servers last night. We contacted AfiliasDNS who operate that service for us. As of yet we haven’t had a reply or a resolution from them that gives us any insight as to what the problem is. What impact is there on customers: Typically, none. But […]
We’re currently experiencing an issue with our Qmail shared email hosting service, affecting mail.blacknight.com. Engineers are actively investigating. Update: 01:10: Mail services are back online. The NFS server crashed around 22:35~ which meant the storage for the mail servers stopped working. This meant we stopped being able to accept new email (which was queued and […]